Book Description
This is a book about the failed state and the reorganisation of entrenched political interests in the face of economic and political crisis: the first deep and broad-ranging assessment of Indonesian political economy since the fall of the New Order.
About the Author
Richard Robison is Professor of Political Economy at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, The Netherlands and was formerly Director of the Australian Research Council's Special Centre for the Study of Political and Economic Change in Asia at Murdoch University, Australia.
Vedi Hadiz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore and was previously Research Fellow at the Asia Research Center, Murdoch University, Australia.
Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold-War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that are reshaping the institutions and systems of power and wealth in Indonesia." This is a book not only for researchers and students but for anyone interested in political economy, political sociology, development studies, and Southeast Asian politics and society.
SYNOPSIS
This is a book about the failed state and the reorganisation of entrenched political interests in the face of economic and political crisis: the first deep and broad-ranging assessment of Indonesian political economy since the fall of the New Order.