PSC 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Golkar, Suharto, Sukarno
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1945 - nationalist war between nationalists and communists & dutch, similar to what was going on in china against japanese. 1949 - new nation under nationalist party movement: Dutch surrenders to us and un, negotiating i. Sk rises as commander, charasmatic, intellectual, father of hinduist movement regarded as architect of modern indonesia despite not favoring normal form of democracy - anti-western sentiment (own vision of national democracy) founder of non aligned movement against us. Socialism (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Suharto as dictator: (cid:12254) ruthless eventually, allowed two political parties to operate, but completely under his control. 2 main crises leading to suharto"s fall (cid:12254) Financial crisis collapse of golkar system demonstrations, strikes, political-economic activity against government, unemployment. 1999 - first free elections previously, all controlled by military three parties emerge: Megawati - democratic party of the struggle, more socially democratic.