Managing Indonesia's transformation : an oral history / Ginandjar Kartasasmita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kartasasmita, Ginandjar.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kartasasmita, Ginandjar.

Cabinet officers--Indonesia--Interviews.

Cabinet officers.

Indonesia--Politics and government--1966-1998.

Indonesia.

Indonesia--Politics and government--1998-.

Indonesia--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 490 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 question

Contents:

Foreword; Contents; Introduction; Turning Points in My Life; Chapter 1 Early Years; Family Background; Studying in Japan; Chapter 2 Rising with Sudharmono: 1965-1983; G-5 KOTI; Joining the Air Force; Joining the State Secretariat; Internal Politics; Cabinet Meetings; Keppres X; Pribumi vs. Non-Pribumi; Appointed as BKPM Chairman; Economic Reform; Working as Minister of Mines and Energy; Raising Fuel Prices; Suharto's Inner Circle; Chapter 3 The Year of 1988; Looking Back at the 1980's; P4; Internal Military Politics; Transitional Years: 1988-1997; ICMI; Chinese Conglomerates: The Tapos Meeting

Appointed as Chairman of BAPPENAS Reaching Out to Civil Society; Dealing with Mounting Problems; The Crisis: 1997-1998; Chapter 4 Toward the MPR in 1998: Indonesia in Crisis; The Final Days of Suharto; The Final Curtain; What Went Wrong; Chapter 5 The Habibie Presidency; The Golkar Congress, 1998; Economic Recovery; Habibie's Democratic Legacy; Regional, Communal, and Ethnic Conflicts; East Timor; Bank Bali; Chapter 6 From Habibie to Wahid; The 1999 MPR and Habibie's Accountability Speech; The Abdurrahman Wahid Presidency; The Political Limbo; The Court Case: Gus Dur's Political Enemy

Ousting Abdurrahman Wahid Chapter 7 Megawati's Presidency and the 2004 Elections: Towards Consociational Democracy?; The Megawati Presidency; Constitutional Reforms; The 2004 Election; Chapter 8 SBY and the Dilemma of a Multiparty Presidential System; SBY's Leadership; 2009 Elections; Golkar and the Future Political Party Configuration; DPD; Chapter 9 Challenges Ahead, International Footprints, and If . . .; Challenges Ahead; International Footprints; If . . .; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781299462281

1299462286

9789814405393

9814405396

OCLC:

839386979