1. Introduction: capital and the state
Focus and definitions
Central argument: the emergence of plutocracy
Methodology
Outline
2. Theoretical framework: power configurations of state and capital
Approaches to Chinese Indonesian capitalists
Identifying the 'ruling class': capital and the state
From bureaucratic to plutocratic capitalism
3. Limited capitalists: Chinese big business and the state before 1998
Determinants: Chinese capital in historical perspective
The New Order accommodation
The limited power of capital
4. Capital in crisis: the conglomerates and the end of the New Order
The crisis in context
Economic impact: the dismantling of the business empires
Political impact: the dissolution of predatory arrangements
The end of the conglomerates?
5. Capital's reaction : the survival of the conglomerates
Reformasi in Indonesia: economic and political contexts
The conglomerates and the new regime
Economic recovery: recouping the losses
Capitalist consolidation, consolidated capital
6. Capital unlimited: towards a new accommodation
Capital in post-Soeharto Indonesia: un-limiting Chinese big business
Modes of transition: patterns of political business
Formats of representation: the rise of an autonomous capitalist class
Plutocracy in the making
7. Conclusion: the state or capital.