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Free Download Suharto’s Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World (Oxford Studies in International History) by Mattias Fibiger
English | July 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0197667228 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 6.3 MB
After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country’s communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a politicide. Seeking to ensure that communism could never again take root in the archipelago, he constructed a New Order to reverse Indonesia’s descent into political instability and economic crisis.

Free Download Mattias Fibiger, "Suharto’s Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World "
English | ISBN: 0197667228 | 2023 | 384 pages | PDF | 29 MB
After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country’s communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a politicide. Seeking to ensure that communism could never again take root in the archipelago, he constructed a New Order to reverse Indonesia’s descent into political instability and economic crisis.

Free Download Edwin Jurriëns, Ross Tapsell, "Digital Indonesia: Connectivity and Divergence"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 9814762997, 9814762989 | PDF | pages: 327 | 7.2 mb
This book places Indonesia at the forefront of the global debate about the impact of "disruptive" digital technologies. Digital technology is fast becoming the core of life, work, culture and identity. Yet, while the number of Indonesians using the internet has followed the upward global trend, some groups ― the poor, the elderly, women, the less well-educated, people living in remote communities ― are disadvantaged. This interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading researchers and scholars, as well as e-governance and e-commerce insiders, examines the impact of digitalisation on the media industry, governance, commerce, informal sector employment, education, cybercrime, terrorism, religion, artistic and cultural expression, and much more. It presents groundbreaking analysis of the impact of digitalisation in one of the worlds most diverse, geographically vast nations. In weighing arguments about the opportunities and challenges presented by digitalisation, it puts the very idea of a technological revolution into critical perspective.

Free Download Mark Williams, "Indonesia, Islam, and the International Political Economy: Clash or Cooperation? "
English | ISBN: 0415788870 | 2017 | 156 pages | EPUB | 828 KB
The Republic of Indonesia is a rising great power in the Asia-Pacific, set to become the eighth largest economy in the world in the coming decades. It is the most populous Muslim majority country in the world. The largest Islamic organizations and parties have supported Indonesia’s participation with global markets, but this has not come from an ideological support for capitalism or economic liberalization. Islamic political culture has denounced the injustices caused by global capitalism and its excesses. In fact, support for Indonesia’s engagement with the international political economy is born from political pragmatism, and from Indonesia’s struggles to achieve economic development.

Free Download Phillip Drake, "Indonesia and the Politics of Disaster: Power and Representation in Indonesia’s Mud Volcano "
English | ISBN: 113869620X | 2016 | 190 pages | EPUB | 616 KB
Named after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo mudflow initially burst in 2006 and continues to flow today, becoming the most expensive disaster in Indonesia’s history.

Free Download Neil McCulloch, "Rural Investment Climate in Indonesia"
English | 2009 | pages: 363 | ISBN: 9812308539 | PDF | 6,4 mb
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the constraints facing the development of rural non-farm enterprises in Indonesia. Recent years have seen a substantial effort by the Indonesian government to improve the investment climate. To date, much of this effort has focused on the constraints faced by businesses at the national level. However, if Indonesia is to be successful in creating jobs and reducing poverty across the archipelago, this will require improving the investment climate for the 15.7 million micro and small enterprises that employ more than half of all the non-farm workers in the country. This book brings together leading Indonesian and international academics to consider seven key constraints that RNFEs face: labour regulations and practices; infrastructure; competition and marketing; knowledge transfer and technology; access to credit and financial services; local taxation and user charges; and insecurity. In each case the authors draw on the Indonesian Rural Investment Climate Survey, a unique dataset of more than 2,500 RNFEs, to identify the size and nature of the constraints, the way in which they impact upon enterprise growth and the implications for policy. In addition, a key chapter estimates the strength of the linkage between agriculture and non-agricultural activities in rural areas, showing that agricultural revitalization is an essential complement to the development of the non-farm economy. "Understanding the rural investment climate in both slow- and fast-growing economies has taken on new urgency in the wake of the world food crisis. The rural non-farm economy often provides half or more of the income of farm families and is especially important for food-deficit rural households hard-hit by rising food prices. The Indonesian Rural Investment Climate Assessment is the "gold standard" for how to achieve this understanding. It is a delight to see it published and available to a wide audience." – C. Peter Timmer, Visiting Professor, Program on Food Security and Environment, Stanford University; Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development

Free Download Leonard C. Sebastian, "Realpolitik Ideology: Indonesia’s Use of Military Force"
English | 2006 | pages: 596 | ISBN: 9812303103, 9812303111 | PDF | 4,9 mb
Realpolitik Ideology presents path-breaking research on the Indonesian military (TNI) going beyond traditional scholarship on the TNI’s dual function or dwifungsi which has been one of the dominating fields of analysis in Indonesian studies since the 1970s. Addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, anthropologists and defence practitioners, this book interprets security policy in terms of its social roots asserting that the realpolitik behaviour of the TNI has strong "socio-cultural" undertones, which in turn shape the development of military doctrine. The argument made in the book is that only through a better understanding of the doctrines that reinforced the military’s significant presence in Indonesian affairs and their subsequent restructuring can Indonesia’s policy-makers attempt meaningful reform of the TNI. Readable, accessible and yet exhaustively researched, Realpolitik Ideology examines the origins and development of ideas on security from the point of view of the TNI and explains why civil-military relations are still fraught with uncertainty, and why the recent changes in military ideology, removal of military posts in the legislature, ongoing divestment of its business, and other measures still do not guarantee that the military will not intervene in the affairs of state. Among its many valuable contributions, this book details: . the background to Indonesian concepts of national security . internal operations and the weak infrastructural power of the state, with an excellent discussion on the intelligence agencies . concepts for external defence, according to the TNI, including Indonesia’s important but little-known contribution to UN peacekeeping missions . defence and national security planning . the most recent laws relating to national security and the role of the military in Indonesia. Realpolitik Ideology offers suggestions about how to redefine concepts of national security to increase civil and democratic space and accountabilities and redress the historic imbalances between the civilian government and the military in Indonesia.

Free Download Thee Kian Wie, "Indonesia’s Economy since Independence"
English | 2012 | pages: 324 | ISBN: 9814379638 | PDF | 6,5 mb
This book contains a collection of papers on various aspects of Indonesia’s economic and its industrial development. It discusses the early independence period in the 1950s; the Soeharto era (1966-1998); and the ensuing two economic crises, namely the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98 and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.

Free Download Taufik Abdullah, "Indonesia: Towards Democracy"
English | 2009 | pages: 661 | ISBN: 9812303650, 9812303669 | PDF | 6,8 mb
This book traces the beginning of the process of nation-formation, the struggle for independence, the hopeful beginning of the new nation-state of Indonesia only to be followed by hard and difficult ways to remain true to the ideals of independence. In the process Indonesia with its sprawling archipelago and its multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation has to undergo various types of crisis and internal conflicts, but the ideals that have been nurtured since the beginning when a new nation began to be visualized remain intact. Some changes in the interpretation may have taken place and some deviations here and there can be noticed but the literal meaning of the ideals continues to be the guiding light. In short this is a history of a nation in the continuing effort to retain the ideals of its existence.

Free Download Ross H. McLeod, Andrew MacIntyre, "Indonesia Democracy Promise Good Governance"
English | 2007 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 9812304665, 9812304592 | PDF | 4,9 mb
The success or failure of democratic reform in Indonesia is a key question for Indonesia itself and for the surrounding region. Although Indonesia’s transition to democracy holds out the promise of good governance, this cannot be taken for granted – as the recent military takeover in Thailand shows. This book is about the challenge of making democracy work in Asia’s third-largest nation.