Most of the earlier studies on the Indonesian political party, Golkar, tend to view the organization solely as an electoral machine used by the military to legitimize its power. However, this study is different in that it considers Golkar less an electoral machine and more as a political organization which inherited the political traditions of the nominal Muslim parties and the Javanese governing elite pre-1965, before the inauguration of Indonesia’s New Order. Golkar, then, is seen in this book as nominal Islam with a military element that tends to differentiate it from previous political parties in the country. Leo Suryadinata traces the birth, struggle, and emergence of this party so closely identified with Indonesia’s President Suharto. Yet, to claim that Suharto and the military dominate the party is to view Golkar superficially, for the party is also composed of factions of civil servants and the Minister of Security and Defense, as well as several other governmental agencies. A complex and well-detailed cultural history of Indonesia’s most powerful political party, this case study should have wider implications for the study of military behavior in the Third World.

Military Ascendancy and Political Culture: A Study of Indonesia's Golkar (Volume 85) (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series)

History

SURYADINATA, LEO

Americas

Ohio University Press

Times comparative dictionary of Malay-Indonesian synonyms

Hassan, Abdullah

Reference

Times Books International

Suryadinata (National U. of Singapore) uses the frameworks of foreign policy analysis and political culture to explain the various factors which have contributed to Suharto's foreign policy, the goals of this policy and the means of achieving them. He also discusses the problems and prospects of Indonesia's relations with the ASEAN states, Australia and Papua New Guinea, China, Vietnam, the superpowers, the Middle East and Bosnia, and NAM and APEC. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Indonesia's Foreign Policy Under Suharto: Aspiring to International Leadership

Legal Theory & Systems

Marshall Cavendish Intl

Indonesia's Foreign Policy Under Suharto: Aspiring To International Leadership

Asia

Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical sketches

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia where there is a significant number of ethnic Chinese, many of whom have played an important role. This book presents biographical sketches of about 530 prominent Indonesian Chinese, including businessmen, community leaders, politicians, religious leaders, artists, sportsmen/sportswomen, writers, journalists, academics, physicians, educators, and scientists. First published in 1972, it was revised and developed into the present format in 1978, and has since been revised several times. This is the fourth and most up-to-date version.

Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches (4th edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Peranakan Chinese Identities in the Globalizing Malay Archipelago

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