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'Re-organisation' of Mass Politics and the Weakened National Revolution in the Era of Neo-Liberal Globalisation
Author: Lane, Max
Date: 01 Jan 2004
Publication:
Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
Organization: Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
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Summary:
"Neo-liberal globalisation is being enforced in Indonesia at a specific conjuncture in its national history. Thirty-eight years of authoritarian regime has severely weakened representative institutions and mechanisms, including political parties of all ideological orientations, and suppressed active ideological life. These institutions and mechanisms had been the primary instruments of the Indonesian national revolution and nation construction process that unfolded between the beginning of the twentieth century and 1965. The destruction of these organisations and the maintenance of a so-called corporatist state structure constituted a profound disorganisation of Indonesian society."
