The Pebble in the Shoe: The Diplomatic Struggle for East Timor presents former Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas’s detailed account of the diplomatic challenges surrounding the East Timor issue. Written from the perspective of a key negotiator, the book explores the complex historical, political, and international dimensions that shaped Indonesia’s policy and interactions with the Unit…
For more than a decade as Indonesia's foremost diplomat, Ali Alatas in his speeches dissected and explore many issues: disarmament, reform of the United Nations, global and regional security, the imbalances in international economic relations, globalization, liberalization and a host of other. But always the theme was durable peace and the only way to reach it-by way of justice. As he propounds…
This is a book that written too soon after the tragic developments in East Timor in 1999, it could have become part of a burning debate, one that had been generating more heat than light.