| Summary: | This thesis discussed the cause of wave revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011, which
toppled the regime that has been in power decades ago. Although many countries in North Africa
and the Middle East experienced about social and political turmoil almost in the same time, but
not all of them experienced in succession of government and have a great revolution as both
countries above.
The cause of the revolutions in those two countries became questions for many people,
especially in the Islamic countries, since emerged and spread so quickly. The crush of social
economic and political realities led public anger, which led to a wave of protests. Although it
was in small scale in the beginning, but later extended to the whole country. The government
responded the protest people with repressive measures so that make the people's anger sparked in
large scale, and finally required the authorities in both countries to retreat.
This thesis researched about revolutions that happened in Tunisia and Egypt starting from
the causes, triggers, and supporting factors in the revolution. To find answers about the cause of
the revolution, the author used two main theories in analyzing the facts in the discussion of this
study, namely the theory of social change and the theory of revolution. Social change theory will
answer about how the process of social change in a community and what factors caused the
occur. While the theory of revolution will answer what the conditions or causes of a revolution in
a society. This study also simultaneously classifies the main actors who play a role in revolutions
in both countries.
In conclusion, researcher found that there are two main factors that led to the revolutions
in both countries, namely social economic factors and political factors. There was a very
fundamental difference regarding the caused of the revolutions in both countries, which is the
turmoil of the revolution in Tunisia was originated from the factor of social and economic issues,
then followed by political factors. While the caused of the revolution in Egypt is the opposite, it
started from the political issues and then continued with social economic factors. Revolution in
both states purely initiated and driven by the general public in both countries, especially young
intellectuals, media activists, workers and opposition parties that had been sequestered.
|
|---|