Open AccessThe Deepening of Jokowi’s Populist Leadership Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring its Effect to Economy and Global Partnership
Author(s) -
Fairuz Arta Abhipraya,
Ilham Agustian Candra,
Fatihatur Rahmi Azizah,
Dama Rifki Adhipramana
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceeding international relations on indonesian foreign policy conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2807-1255
DOI - 10.33005/irofonic.v1i1.15
Subject(s) - pandemic , general partnership , political science , political economy , government (linguistics) , development economics , economic growth , sociology , covid-19 , economics , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
The rise of populist leaders amidst the pandemic has become the fundamental debate of political scholars nowadays. This article described the populist leadership pattern of Jokowi in times of the outbreak COVID-19 pandemic and its implication toward the economy and global partnership. The qualitative method and descriptive analysis approach have been used in this article. Through library research in several resources, this article explained the casual relationship of Jokowi’s populist leadership amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and its implication toward the economy and global partnership. The result of this research has shown that Jokowi’s populist leader in the form of bias optimism, anti-science, and leadership ambiguity has led Indonesia into the worsening of pandemic cases among Southeast Asia countries. The incapability of the Indonesian government to tackle the increased number of COVID-19 cases has been proven by the negative economic growth in the scope of regional and global partnerships. Furthermore, this article concludes that Jokowi’s populist leadership has failed to maintain the economy and global partnership.