The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Author: Herbert Feith Publisher: Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973
Feith was captivated by the young Indonesian state, which had chosen a liberal democracy—an aspiration which, in his opinion, had been hemmed in from two sides: the military and “an oratory leader”. From December 1949-March 1957, the political period which he researched, there were two types of leaders, namely government administrators and leaders of the masses.
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