Regional Autonomy and the Role of the Middle Class
September 25, 2000
Nizul Achyar *)
*) A Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois and chairman of the Indonesian Students in the U.S. (Permias).
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Amid the bewildering discourse on the future of Indonesia, one tends to forget the role of the middle class as innovators, entrepreneurs and drivers of development in the building of a new Indonesian society. Too much emphasis is given to the idea of a civil society as an antithesis to the militaristic and und |