Indonesia
Golkar
Developmentalism / big tent
The governing vehicle of Suharto’s New Order, now a pluralist centre-right party organised around business interests, developmentalism and pancasila nationalism.
- Founded
- 1964
- Positions as of
- 2024 party platform
- Last verified
01
What does it believe?
Wealth and inequality
Favours infrastructure investment, resource downstreaming and foreign investment liberalisation.
Nation and the world
Organised around pancasila as the state ideology and the unitary republic.
02
Where it sits on each dimension
Wealth and inequality
62
RedistributionMarket outcomes
Evidence: Documented
The state in the economy
55
Active stateLimited state
Evidence: Documented
Nation and the world
74
InternationalistNationalist
Evidence: Well documented
Religion and the state
52
Secular stateReligion in public life
Evidence: Documented
Power and its limits
52
Concentrated authorityChecks and pluralism
Evidence: Documented
Sources
Sources are prioritised in this order: official manifestos, official party documents, parliamentary records, academic research, then high-quality reporting.
- Party Statutes and Platform · Partai Golkar
- Registered political parties · General Elections Commission of Indonesia · 2024
Logo: Logo Golkar.svg · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons.