Power and Political Culture in Suharto's Indonesia
Power and Political Culture in Suharto's Indonesia

Author: Stefan Eklof

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06-02

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1135303681

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In the mid-1990s, the formerly pliant Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) was transformed into an active opposition party by Megawati Sukarnoputri (now President of Indonesia). The subsequent backlash from the Suharto regime ultimately led to its downfall.

Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia
Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia

Author: S. Alatas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-10-29

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0230378544

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The fact that the Malaysian state has managed to maintain a relatively democratic regime, while an authoritarian regime came to power in Indonesia has never been the focus of historical and comparative analyses despite certain cultural, social, and historical affinities between these two countries. This book takes a look at contrasting class structures and alliances, elite cohesion, state strength, as well as differences in political challenges to the state in order to understand two different paths to post-colonial state formation.

Reconciling Indonesia
Reconciling Indonesia

Author: Birgit Bräuchler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1134010966

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Promoting an interdisciplinary examination of Indonesia, this volume goes beyond a mere political and legal approach to reconciliation. It offers new understandings of bottom-up reconciliation approaches and the cultural dimension of reconciliation.

Women in Indonesia
Women in Indonesia

Author: Kathryn Robinson

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9789812301598

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Women in Indonesia: gender, equity and development.

Journalism and Politics in Indonesia
Journalism and Politics in Indonesia

Author: David T. Hill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1135169144

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This book weaves a history of the Indonesian press, and of Indonesia’s post-independence history, through the life story of Mochtar Lubis: one of Indonesia’s best-known newspaper editors, authors and cultural figures with a national, regional and international prominence he retained from the early 1950s until his death in 2004.