A Nation in Waiting"" brings the story of contemporary Indonesia right up to date, covering the collapse of the economy, the fall of Suharto, the series of brief subsequent presidencies and the challenges facing the nation in the run-up to the 2004 elections. ""A Naton in Waiting"" lifts the veil on the Indonesia of the 1980s and 1990s and spans a wide variety of contemporary issues to offer a …
Indonesia enters the new millennium at a time of transition. It has experienced several crises - in particular the economic crisis of 1997-98, a severe intensification of its environmental degradation, and more recently the East Timor crisis, the ongoing Aceh demand for independence, the change of government from the autocratic Soeharto regime to one democratically elected and under the leaders…
Indonesia is experiencing an historic and dramatic shift in political and economic power from the centre to the local level.
Indonesia was in a parlous condition in 1998. Only a few years earlier, in of the Third World's the mid-1990s, it had often been portrayed as one of success stories.¹ President Soeharto's military-backed New Order was certainly authoritarian but it had underwritten political stability for almost three decades since the bloody upheaval surrounding the collapse of President Soekarno's Guided Dem…
Indonesian and US political scholars explore the impact of economic growth on twelve major Indonesian institutions, including private and public enterprises, formal political institutions, the armed forces, the bureaucracy, non-governmental organizations, the media, and trade unions. They find that the growing gap between a governing structure that is slow to change and a dynamic broader societ…
Indonesian politics under Suharto is readable, well-informed, and judicious introduction to the 'New Order', and the figures who have shaped it. The author brings to his subject not only a command of available Western studies on the country, but a wealth of previously unpublished interviews with retired or deposed political and military personalities.
Buku ini merupakan kumpulan tulisan yang pernah dan belum pernah dimuat di media masa. Sebagian merupakan pengantar beberapa buku sejarah. Sedang sebagian lainnya terdiri dari tinjauan buku terutama yang terbit setelah era reformasi 1998. Substansi yang dibahas merefleksikan perkembangan sejarah Indonesia mutakhir, sebagian besar buku yang dibicarakan itu tergolong kategori terlarang pada masa …