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Opposing Suharto : compromise, resistance, and regime change in Indonesia / Edward Aspinall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aspinall, Edward.
- Series:
- Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
- East-West Center series on contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opposition (Political science)--Indonesia--History--20th century.
- Opposition (Political science).
- Indonesia--Politics and government--1966-1998.
- Indonesia.
- Soeharto, 1921-2008.
- Soeharto.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia. It describes how opposition groups challenged the long-time ruler, President Suharto, and his military-based regime, forcing him to resign in 1998. The book's main purpose is to explain how ordinary people can bring about political change in a repressive authoritarian regime. It does this by telling the story of an array of dissident groups, nongovernmental organizations, student activists, and political party workers as they tried to expand democratic space in the last decade of Suharto's rule. This book is an important study not only for readers interested in contemporary Indonesia and political change in Asia, but also for all those interested in democratization processes elsewhere in the world. Unlike most other books on Indonesia, and unlike many books on democratization, it provides an account from the perspective of those who were struggling to bring about change.
- Contents:
- Regime and opposition
- Suharto's new order : origins and opening
- Regime friction and elite dissidence
- Proto-opposition : NGOs and the Legal Aid Institute
- Student activism : from moral force to popular mobilization
- Megawati Soekarnoputri and the PDI
- Prelude to the fall : the 1996 crisis and its aftermath
- The fall of Suharto
- Indonesia's opposition and democratic transition in comparative perspective
- Legacies of Suharto and his opposition.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-6731-9
- 1-4237-1656-6
- OCLC:
- 614703639
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