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19 Apr 2012, 9:00 pm
When I first visited Indonesia in 1988, the brutal government apparently only kept Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- probably the nation's most famous writer and its greatest potential engine to advance the national and still rather newborn Bahasa Indonesia language to unite a nation that never had been much united before independence -- out of prison (after being in and out of prisons many times before, under the Suharto and Sukarno regimes and by colonial… [read post]
29 Oct 2010, 6:47 am
Although since the fall of President Suharto in May 1998 Indonesia saw a period of rapid reform, twelve years on, the process seems to have severely crumbled away. [read post]
18 May 2007, 1:23 am
We've seen that many of those loans go to projects in places like India or Kenya that are riddled by corruption; the bank may have lost as much as $8 billion to corruption in 25 years of lending to the Suharto regime in Indonesia. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 1:50 pm
Suharto provided this stability for years in Indonesia, but when looting by his grown children endangered this equilibrium, the wealthy class deserted him and he was driven from power. [read post]
11 Jan 2007, 10:00 pm
" - In 1975, Ford and Kissinger together gave Indonesia the green light to invade (see here also) and take over East Timor, which led to some of the Suharto government's most brutal and widespread human rights violations. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 2:47 am
Worst kleptocrat according to 2012 edition of Guinness world records: President Suharto of Indonesia. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 3:40 am
"In addition, carrying out the death sentence costs us a huge amount of money," he said.Last year’s execution hiatus was a sharp contrast to 2008, when the AGO ordered the execution of 10 inmates — a record in the post-Suharto era.The flurry of executions started after a humiliating bribery scandal rocked the AGO in March 2008. [read post]
29 Jul 2018, 7:00 am
There was certainly some democracy promotion when authoritarian regimes began to totter, but there was also deep, sustained cooperation with dictators like Suharto and Ferdinand Marcos; while there are some regional institutions (such as ASEAN), they are comparatively weak; while there are some rules, they have been deeply contested. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 10:30 pm
Within Islam, we have seen the secular repressive pattern and its aggressive and intentional efforts to promote its program: Turkey's Atatürk, Egypt's Nasser, Iraq's Hussein, Indonesia's Suharto, Iran's Shah Pahlavi, and Syria's Assad. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 9:05 pm
Sadly, too many great writers -- of course, the Internet and blogosphere run the full gamut from great writing to abysmal writing -- have had their voices squelched including, in more recent times, Pramoedya Ananta Toer by the Sukarno and Suharto regimes and beyond, Vaclav Havel before the communist regime fell, and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn under the Soviet regime. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 9:00 pm
Sadly, too many great writers -- of course, the Internet and blogosphere run the full gamut from great writing to abysmal writing -- have had their voices squelched including, in more recent times, Pramoedya Ananta Toer by the Sukarno and Suharto regimes and beyond, Vaclav Havel before the communist regime fell, and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn under the Soviet regime. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 9:00 pm
When I first visited Indonesia in 1988, the brutal government apparently only kept Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- probably the nation's most famous writer and its greatest potential engine to advance the national and still rather newborn Bahasa Indonesia language to unite a nation that never had been much united before independence -- out of prison (after being in and out of prisons many times before, under the Suharto and Sukarno regimes and by colonial… [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 9:00 pm
When I first visited Indonesia in 1988, the brutal government apparently only kept Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- probably the nation's most famous writer and its greatest potential engine to advance the national and still rather newborn Bahasa Indonesia language to unite a nation that never had been much united before independence -- out of prison (after being in and out of prisons many times before, under the Suharto and Sukarno regimes and by colonial… [read post]
5 Feb 2016, 12:49 am
Journo Louise Story’s list of Bel Air’s latest home owners runs thus:- Gilbet R Chagury – convicted of money laundering in Switzerland The son of president Suharto – former corrupt dictator of Indonesia Kola Aluko- currently under investigation by Nigeria’s oil ministry. [read post]
19 Apr 2008, 9:00 pm
When I first visited Indonesia in 1988, the brutal government apparently only kept Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- probably the nation's most famous writer and its greatest potential engine to advance the national and still rather newborn Bahasa Indonesia language to unite a nation that never had been much united before independence -- out of prison (after being in and out of prisons many times before, under the… [read post]
19 Apr 2009, 9:00 pm
When I first visited Indonesia in 1988, the brutal government apparently only kept Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- probably the nation's most famous writer and its greatest potential engine to advance the national and still rather newborn Bahasa Indonesia language to unite a nation that never had been much united before independence -- out of prison (after being in and out of prisons many times before, under the… [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 5:50 am
Henry Kissinger, who served as national security adviser and secretary of state under Presidents Richard M. [read post]
8 Sep 2007, 10:35 am
As it became clear that General (later President) Suharto had no intention of restoring the independence and authority of Indonesian judicial institutions, the condition of the prosecution, courts, and notariat quickly declined further, as the corruption begun under Guided Democracy accelerated along with economic growth. [read post]
23 May 2022, 6:05 am
A Legacy of Authoritarian Rule The KMT, during the time it was backed by the United States, shared many characteristics with similar authoritarian, right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Asia (for example in South Korea, and under Ferdinand Marcos and Suharto in The Philippines and Indonesia), and in the Global South. [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 7:52 pm
The Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (RCCL) of the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong organised an marvelous International Conference on “Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Perspectives from China and India”. [read post]
