HISTORY IN UNIFORM: MILITARY IDEOLOGY & THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDONESIA’S PAST Author: Katherine E. McGregor Published by: National University of Singapore Press, 2007

IN 1945 when Indonesia proclaimed its independence from The Netherlands it had no army-in-waiting, indeed no police, nothing at all in the way of a formal apparatus of security or defense. The leadership was essentially anti-militarist and in the case of Prime Minister Sutan Sj