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Book Indonesian Foreign Policy and the Dilemma of Dependence

Download or read book Indonesian Foreign Policy and the Dilemma of Dependence written by Franklin B. Weinstein and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can an underdeveloped country like Indonesia draw on outside resources for its national development without sacrificing its independence? Approaching the problem from the vantage point of the Indonesian elite, this important work explores the complex interactions between domestic political factors and the shaping of foreign policy. To illustrate the ways in which underdevelopment has affected Indonesia's international participation, Professor Weinstein presents a graphic picture of what Indonesia's leaders see when they view the outside world, and he systematically seeks out the sources of their perceptions. He shows that most of the elite see the international system as dominated by exploitative powers that cannot be relied on to assist Indonesia's development. He examines the relationship between perceptions and politics under both Sukarno and Soeharto and offers an illuminating comparison of the bases of foreign policy under each leader, revealing dramatic changes and surprising continuities. His cogent analysis helps to explain the sharp reversal of policy in 1966, and his conclusions form a convincing hypothesis that can be tested in other Third World countries. This book, now brought back to life as a member of Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, will attract specialists in Southeast Asia, as well as readers with a broader interest in the politics and economics of underdeveloped countries. FRANKLIN B. WEINSTEIN was Director of the Project on United States-Japan Relations at Stanford University, where he also taught in the Department of Political Science. A graduate of Yale University, he received his PhD from Cornell University.

Book Modern Indonesia

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. B. Cribb
  • Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Modern Indonesia written by R. B. Cribb and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the development of Indonesia, from its origins in 1945 to the present day

Book Indonesia After Sukarno

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justus Maria Van der Kroef
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Indonesia After Sukarno written by Justus Maria Van der Kroef and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indonesia Since Sukarno

Download or read book Indonesia Since Sukarno written by Peter Polomka and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1971 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia. Study of political problems, social problems and obstacles to economic development confronting the political leadership of president suharto - discusses the fall of sukarno, the rise of the armed forces as a political power, interest groups, social change, etc., and analyses the respective roles of the communist political party, the Christian Church and the Islamic religion. Bibliography pp. 217 to 220.

Book Sukarno s Guided Indonesia

Download or read book Sukarno s Guided Indonesia written by Tjin-kie Tan and published by [Brisbane] : Jacaranda Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indonesia Since Sukarno

Download or read book Indonesia Since Sukarno written by Justus Maria Van der Kroef and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book INDONESIA THE SUKARNO YEARS

Download or read book INDONESIA THE SUKARNO YEARS written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sukarno

    Book Details:
  • Author : L.J. Giebels
  • Publisher : Singel Uitgeverijen
  • Release : 2015-08-01
  • ISBN : 9462251444
  • Pages : 837 pages

Download or read book Sukarno written by L.J. Giebels and published by Singel Uitgeverijen. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sukarno – a biography is the first English language biography on Sukarno (1901-1970) – the founding father and first president of Indonesia. The book is both a biography of Sukarno and an account of the birth and ascent of the state of Indonesia. The author reveals many little-known facts and events. He makes the reader realize that to understand the character of its first president is to understand today’s Indonesia.. Sukarno was born in 1901 as the son of a schoolteacher in a country that had been a Dutch colony for almost three centuries. For most of his life, he was a subject of The Netherlands, at least formally. Although he never set foot in The Netherlands, towards the end of his life, he could still recite the names of all the Frisian waterways, or all the train stations between major Dutch towns. Sukarno once confessed that he dreamt, prayed, and swore in Dutch. But he loathed the colonizer. As soon as he became the president, he banned the speaking of Dutch. His charisma, oratorical talent, intelligence, and ruthlessness eventually allowed this former architecture student to become the leader of the nationalist movement known as Indonesia Merdeka! (which means Indonesia Independent). Although it took another four bloody years until the Dutch would accept Indonesia’s independence, for Indonesians today, Merdeka became a reality after August 17 1945. But the departure of the Dutch in the 1950s didn’t mean that president Sukarno was suddenly without enemies. At least four attempts were made on his life between 1957 and 1962. The Indonesian president was convinced that the CIA saw him as a communist threat, and was behind at least one of the assassination attempts. Today’s Indonesia still bears the mark of its first president. Sukarno developed the five pillars of Pancasila (the official philosophical foundation of the Indonesian state): belief in God, nationalism, international humanism, consensus democracy, and social justice. For example, the fifth pillar, social justice, still requires the Indonesian government to allocate a substantial part of the national income to social security provisions such as unemployment, health and disability insurance, as well as pensions. Sukarno’s main constitutional heritage is the fact that Indonesia has become a unitary state. Indonesia is an archipelago that is as wide as the distance between Ireland and the Caucasus; it is the fourth most populous nation in the world. Countries of similar size and diversity all have adopted federal forms of governance. But in Indonesia, federation is still a loaded concept, one that many see as a betrayal of the fight against the colonial power. This attests to how certainly Sukarno will remain a vital part of his nation’s history. About the author Dr. Lambert J. Giebels (1935-2011) was a Dutch politician and writer who was renowned in the Netherlands for his political biographies. His two-volume biography of Sukarno, written in Dutch, originally consisted of 1,100 pages. The English translation, Sukarno – A biography, is an abridged version of those two volumes. The translation is a collaboration between the Indonesian-American Raden M. Gatot Kusuma Sujanto and Geert van der Linden, a former vice-president of the Asian Development Bank in Manila.

Book Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno

Download or read book Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno written by Rex Mortimer and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sophisticated study, now brought back into print as the second book in Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, delineates the ideology of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) during a crucial period in its history. After sketching the evolution of the Party's doctrines between 1951 and 1959, Professor Mortimer analyzes the ideas, programs, and policies of the PKI during Guided Democracy, showing how they developed and were implemented. Mortimer thoroughly examines the relationship between the Party and President Sukarno and offers new interpretations of the events leading up to the abortive coup and the bloody destruction of the PKI in 1965. Specialists and students of modern Indonesia and of Asian nationalism will welcome this first history of Indonesian communism during an era that began with spectacular expansion and ended in disaster.

Book The Indonesian Presidency

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angus McIntyre
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2005-03-11
  • ISBN : 1461604656
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Indonesian Presidency written by Angus McIntyre and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study of the Indonesian presidency significantly redefines our understanding of Indonesian politics from independence to the present. Angus McIntyre blends political biography with constitutional history to locate Indonesian leaders within both Indonesian cultural frameworks and the global biographical literature on political leaders.The Indonesian Presidency shows how Indonesia's 1945 constitution provided first for the personal rule of presidents Sukarno and Soeharto and then facilitated the shift towards constitutional rule that marked the presidencies of B.J. Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid, and Megawati Sukarnoputri. This important study elevates the personalities of Sukarno and Soeharto into key explanatory factors for the character of their "Guided Democracy" and "New Order" regimes, respectively. It argues that in 1959 Sukarno began fashioning his system of personal rule, to the detriment of Indonesia's parliamentary democracy. Another constitutional turning point occurred in 1998, when a rudimentary constitutional rule reappeared. The broad shift since 1998 from personal to constitutional rule has its personal counterpoint in the relationship between Megawati and her father, which makes this unique blend of history and biography a powerful tool for understanding the Indonesian presidency. An afterword by the author on the book's website, www.rowmanlittlefield.com/isbn/0742538273, brings readers up to date on Indonesian political developments that have affected the presidency since the book's publication.For an up-to-date afterword by the author, click here; for glossary, click here.

Book Indonesia Since Sukarno

Download or read book Indonesia Since Sukarno written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the political leadership and political power of president suharto in Indonesia from 1968 to 1971 - covers political partys, communist resurgence, the political problems of western new Guinea (west irian), economic reconstruction, foreign policy, etc. Bibliography pp. 243 to 246 and statistical tables.

Book Pretext for Mass Murder

Download or read book Pretext for Mass Murder written by John Roosa and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior surviving general, Haji Mohammad Suharto, drove the movement’s partisans out of Jakarta. Riding the crest of mass violence, Suharto blamed the Communist Party of Indonesia for masterminding the movement and used the emergency as a pretext for gradually eroding President Sukarno’s powers and installing himself as a ruler. Imprisoning and killing hundreds of thousands of alleged communists over the next year, Suharto remade the events of October 1, 1965 into the central event of modern Indonesian history and the cornerstone of his thirty-two-year dictatorship. Despite its importance as a trigger for one of the twentieth century’s worst cases of mass violence, the September 30th Movement has remained shrouded in uncertainty. Who actually masterminded it? What did they hope to achieve? Why did they fail so miserably? And what was the movement’s connection to international Cold War politics? In Pretext for Mass Murder, John Roosa draws on a wealth of new primary source material to suggest a solution to the mystery behind the movement and the enabling myth of Suharto’s repressive regime. His book is a remarkable feat of historical investigation. Finalist, Social Sciences Book Award, the International Convention of Asian Scholars

Book The Life and Times of Sukarno

Download or read book The Life and Times of Sukarno written by Christian Lambert Maria Penders and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sukarno

Download or read book Sukarno written by John David Legge and published by Didier Millet,Csi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sukarno was one of the great charismatic leaders of the post-war world. To some he was the architect of his nation, to others a flamboyant and extravagant dictator.

Book The End of Sukarno

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Hughes
  • Publisher : Angus & Robertson Publishers
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The End of Sukarno written by John Hughes and published by Angus & Robertson Publishers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Konfrontasi Revisited

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  • Author : J. Soedjati Djiwandono
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Konfrontasi Revisited written by J. Soedjati Djiwandono and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: