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Managing Indonesia's Transformation: An Oral History
Author(s): Ginandjar Kartasasmita (Author)
- Publisher: Wspc
- Publication Date: 28 Jan. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 500 pages
- ISBN-10: 9814405388
- ISBN-13: 9789814405386
Book Description
Managing Indonesia’s Transformation: An Oral History is an account of Ginandjar Kartasasmita’s career in the Indonesian government, both under President Suharto and in the post-Suharto era. Based on all the ministerial positions in which Kartasasmita has served the government, the book provides readers candid insights into the domestic and international political and economic contexts in which decisions were made, and how policies were formulated and implemented in Indonesia. The book contains many hours of interviews in which the author responds – as frankly as he can – to all sorts of questions from a group of scholars and specialists working on Indonesian politics and political economy, with the understanding that the book is for those who want to understand Indonesian politics, both past and present. Contents: Early Years; Rising with Sudharmono: 19651983; The Year of 1988; Toward the Mpr in 1998: Indonesia in Crisis; The Habibie Presidency; From Habibie to Wahid; Megawati’s Presidency and the 2004 Elections: Towards Consociational Democracy?; Sby and the Dilemma of a Multiparty Presidential System; Challenges Ahead, International Footprints, and If . . ..
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