Author: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | Journal of Democracy

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was elected in 2009 to his second term as president of the Republic of Indonesia. The text that follows is adapted from the keynote address that he delivered in Jakarta on 12 April 2010 at the sixth biennial Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy.

July 2010, Volume 21, Issue 3

The Democratic Instinct in the 21st Century

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Democratization is never easy, smooth, or linear, but as Indonesia’s experience in building a multiparty and multiethnic democracy shows, it can succeed even under difficult and initially unpromising conditions.