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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809263203321

Autore

Kartasasmita Ginandjar

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2013

New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2013]

�2013

ISBN

1-299-46228-6

981-4405-39-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 490 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

959.803

959.8037092

Soggetti

Cabinet officers - Indonesia

Indonesia Politics and government 1966-1998-

Indonesia Politics and government 1998-

Indonesia Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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