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Young Soeharto : The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945
Title
Young Soeharto : The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945 / David Jenkins.
ISBN
9789814881012
9789814881005
Publication
Singapore : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (503 pages): illustrations,
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"the first volume in a three-volume series" -- preface.
In English.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
When a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lt Gen Soeharto full executive authority in March 1966, Indonesia was a deeply divided nation, fractured along ideological, class, religious and ethnic lines. Soeharto took a country in chaos, the largest in Southeast Asia, and transformed it into one of the "Asian miracle" economies - only to leave it back on the brink of ruin when he was forced from office thirty-two years later. Drawing on his astonishing range of interviews with leading Indonesian generals, former Imperial Japanese Army officers and men who served in the Dutch colonial army, as well as years of patient research in Dutch, Japanese, British, Indonesian and US archives, David Jenkins brings vividly to life the story of how a socially reticent but exceptionally determined young man from rural Java began his rise to power-an ascent which would be capped by thirty years (1968-98) as President of Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation on earth. Soeharto was one of Asia's most brutal, most durable, most avaricious and most successful dictators. In the course of examining those aspects of his character, this book provides an accessible, highly readable introduction to the complex, but dramatic and utterly absorbing, social, political, religious, economic and military factors that have shaped, and which continue to shape, Indonesia.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
1. "The Sultan came to me and asked about that family tree"
2. "The cork on which the Netherlands floats"
3. "They regard Holland as a very weak power"
4. "An invisible motivating force"
5. "What kind of Islam is this?"
6. "Soeharto is a closed book"
7. "I was suited to the disciplined life of the military"
8. A reassuringly familiar world
9. A policeman for the Japanese
10. An armed force conjured out of nothing
11. "The whole island was ablaze with enthusiasm"
12. "Don't make them too strong!"
13. "Soeharto was a cautious man"
14. "Why did they choose Soeharto?"
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies.
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ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, publisher.
Project Muse. distributor
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