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Democracy, Freedom, Populism, and Authoritarianism escrito por Dini Harmita [1]   Abstract Indonesia has been acknowledging the principle of one of their indigenous people saying that rice should not be sold but sharing instead. Thus, they built BULOG. Nonetheless, like other countries with the challenges of vague definition of authoritarianism, populism, and democracy, they failed in implementing it. The rice has low qualities yet still get stolen by mafias and the poor needs to pay the rice. This phenomenon does not happen only in Asia but also at least in Europe and Latin America though with different contexts, regardless democracy, populism, and or authoritarianism the entity is. This brief paper is aimed at summarising the phenomenon and delivering different perspectives that may encourage those who are in confusion to see and find the clearer pathways.   Keywords: Democracy, populism, authoritarianism, Asia, Europe, Latin America   Defining  ...

Freedom and Democracy escrito por Dini Harmita   Summary    Freedom tends to be crippled especially this lately, following the rise of authoritarianism and far-rights. As one of the indicators of democracy, the freedom erosion effects on the essentially dying democracy. It becomes a cycle when the democracy short-breath causes the freedom to be crippled even more. This book is aimed at exploring the cases from different contexts and backgrounds. The contexts include the very radical Russia and Myanmar, the moving pendulum British and Spanish politics including their monarchs, and the surviving Ukraine. Indonesia, Israel, Taiwan, and few other countries are also analysed in the contexts of their distinctive differences such as ideology and personality tendencies. Key words: Freedom, Democracy,   I.                     Putin’s Fears What far-rights and authorit...