Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America. His 1980 book Negara analyzed the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. Here Geertz ap…
What are Indonesia's prospects over the next ten years? Its economy has been ravaged by the Asian economic crisis. Its leader for 32 years, President Soeharto, was forced from office in May 1998 amidst rioting and student demonstrations. This book examines the political and economic trends which are shaping Indonesia's future.
Indonesia is now a fragile nation, a country in crisis. It is breaking apart because just as Sukarno had failed in his interplay of strength between communism and the armed forces, Suharto failed to keep the balance of power between the armed forces and Islam. Moreover, the Indonesian state crest, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity). Without this spirit, so vital to a multi-religious and …
Buku ini menyajikan pembahasan yang komprehensif dan memiliki cakupan luas tentang konsep suksesi politik atau suksesi kepemimpinan nasional di suatu negara.
Indonesia is experiencing an historic and dramatic shift in political and economic power from the centre to the local level.
The author hopes through this book to inform the readers of some of the activities of the Politburo, Party Central Committee, the Central Army Party Committee and Strategic Staff Office of the Party during the last years of the war, 1973 to 1975
With the sudden end of rapid economic growth, the urgency of political reform in Thailand became acute. The Thai parliament passed major changes to the electoral system in late 2000, weeks before the January 2001 election. Reflecting on the twists and turns of reform in Thailand over the years and with the first in-depth scholarly analysis of how successful were the recent electoral reforms, th…
This interpretative study of Thailand is the first publication in the Southeast Asia "State of the Nation" Monograph Series published the Institute of Southeast Asia. The purpose of the series is to make available concise studies of the state of the nation in each of the countries of Southeast Asia, taking into account the political, economic and social forces that have shaped them. It attempts…
This study examines a number of themes underlying the struggle to identify the character and causes of the violence engulfing suthern Thailand's border provinces since 2004. It begins by outlining key representations of the southern problem in Thailand.
In 1988 Burma exploded. In scenes now familiar from recent events in Eastern Europe the people of Burma rose against their government. They were brutally put down on a scale matched only by the Chinese repression at Tiananmen. This was a mass and nationwide expression of outrage at the régime's ruinous economic policies and repressive politics.