Young, Dying Reform

December 9, 2003

 Syamsuddin Haris
Political observer from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), domiciled in Jakarta.

 

THE New Order did not really die on May 21, 1988. What happened at that time, actually, was no more than the resignation of the Chief of the New Order, Suharto. In his book, Indonesia Beyond Soeharto, Donald K. Emmerson says that, if the New Order is looked upon as a set of institutions, a group of officials, a number of methods


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