Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period

The Foundation of the New Order State (1950-1965)

• Author(s): Farabi Fakih,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 316
• ISBN_10: 900443772X
  ISBN_13: 9789004437722
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Asia / General , History / Middle East / General , Political Science / General ,

Description:... In Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period, Farabi Fakih offers a historical analysis of the foundational years leading to Indonesia’s New Order state (1966-1998) during the early independence period. The study looks into the structural and ideological state formation during the so-called Liberal Democracy (1950-1957) and Sukarno’s Guided Democracy (1957-1965). In particular, it analyses how the international technical aid network and the dominant managerialist ideology of the period legitimized a new managerial elite. The book discusses the development of managerial education in the civil and military sectors in Indonesia. The study gives a strongly backed argument that Sukarno’s constitutional reform during the Guided Democracy period inadvertently provided a strong managerial blueprint for the New Order developmentalist state.