Indonesia Update Series
About the Indonesia Update Series:
The Indonesia Update series, organized annually since 1988 by the ANU Indonesia Project, is designed to be an authoritative review of developments in Indonesia. Each year’s Update focuses on a particular theme and brings together an expert group of commentators and scholars from Indonesia, Australia, and elsewhere. Since 1994, the annual proceedings, revised and edited by specialists, have been published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. Books can be purchased from the ISEAS bookshop: https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/
Business in Indonesia: new challenges, old problems
Author(s): Basri, M C (editor), van der Eng, P (editor)Date of publication: 2004
Publication type: Book
This book examines Indonesia’s business environment since reformasi began in 1985 - what stayed the same, what changed, and would could change. Economic recovery has been hesitant. Regime change and political reform have created uncertainties that have deepened reluctance to invest. A raft of...
Local power and politics in Indonesia: decentralisation and democratisation
Author(s): Aspinall, E (editor), Fealy, G (editor)Date of publication: 2003
Publication type: Book
Published by ISEAS in 2003. Indonesia is experiencing an historic and dramatic shift in political and economic power from the centre to the local level. The collapse of the highly centralised Soeharto regime allowed long-repressed local aspirations to come to the fore. The new Indonesian...
Women in Indonesia: gender, equity and development
Author(s): Robinson, K (editor), Bessell, S (editor)Date of publication: 2001
Publication type: Book
Indonesia now has its first woman President – Megawati Sukarnoputri. The debates surrounding her elevation to the presidency brought issues of gender and politics to the forefront of the public agenda, raising crucial questions about the role that women are to play in public life in post-Soeharo...
Indonesia today: challenges of history
Author(s): Lloyd, G J (editor), Smith, S L (editor)Date of publication: 2000
Publication type: Book
It is often said that history can function as a guide to the future. At the turn of the century and the crossroads of reformasi, it is timely to examine aspects of Indonesia’s political, economic and social history – the lessons, challenges and achievements – both to inform current events, as well...
Indonesia in transition: social aspects of reformasi and crisis
Author(s): Manning, C (editor), van der Veer, P (editor)Date of publication: 1999
Publication type: Book
Indonesia enters the new millennium at a time of transition. It has experienced several crises - in particular the economic crisis of 1997-98, a severe intensification of its environmental degradation, and more recently te East Timor crisis, the ongoing Aceh demand for independence, the change of...
Post-Suharto Indonesia: renewal or chaos?
Author(s): Forrester, G (editor)Date of publication: 1998
Publication type: Book
Indonesia’s economy has been ravaged by the Asian economic crisis. Its leader for 32 years, President Soeharto, was forced from office in May 1998 amidst rioting and student demonstrations. What are Indonesia’s prospects over the next ten years? This book examines the political and economic trends...
Indonesia's technological challenge
Author(s): Hill, H (editor), Thee, K W (editor)Date of publication: 1997
Publication type: Book
This volume provides a lively review of recent economic and political developments in Indonesia and addresses the issue of the country’s “Technological Challenge” from a variety of perspectives. These include the policy foundations, the analytical issues, case studies, international co-operation...
Population and human resources
Author(s): Jones, G W (editor), Hull, T H (editor)Date of publication: 1996
Publication type: Book
Indonesia’s population, the fourth largest in the world, is expected to pass the 200 million mark in 1997. It has sustained high rates of economic growth over the past two decades. This has undoubtedly been related to its success in moderating earlier high rates of population growth, and to its...
Development in eastern Indonesia
Author(s): Hardjono, J (editor), Barlow, C (editor)Date of publication: 1995
Publication type: Book
Indonesia Assessment 1995 contains two main sections: one overviewing current Indonesian economic and political conditions, and one examining economic and social developments in Eastern Indonesia. This is the vast region of 25 million people, lying between Java, Malaysia, the Philippines and...
Finance as a key sector in Indonesia's development
Author(s): McLeod, R (editor)Date of publication: 1994
Publication type: Book
This volume is based on Indonesia Update 1994, the latest in the series of annual conferences on Indonesia held at The Australian National University. It presents overviews of economic and political developments, together with a collection of papers on the role of the finance sector.Indonesia...
