The Awful Middle Class

Dr Salut Muhidin, senior lecturer in demography at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University explains why members of the Indonesian middle class are derided.

Dr Salut Muhidin, 2016 - Private Collection. Source: Private Collection.

What are the key characteristics of the contemporary Indonesian middle class? Might the growth of an Indonesian middle class that is essentially urban, deepen dangerous social divisions? Dr Salut Muhidin, senior lecturer in demography at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University explains.