Studies of Indonesian politics have long focused upon the military
and the bureaucracy because it is within these institutions that
formal power is located, not the parties, unions, chambers of
commerce or corporations. However, such an approach can neglect the
powerful influences exerted upon the state by social and economic
forces. This important and controversial new book examines the way
in which one of these forces, capital, has emerged in the past two
decades as a major influence upon the state, its officials and
policies. The emergence of the capitalist class is examined, along
with its internal divisions and conflicts and its relations with
the state. In particular, attention is given to the fusion of the
ruling strata of state officials and the capitalist class the
potential basis for a new ruling class. This is set against the
weakness of capital caused by its division into domestic and
international, state and private, Chinese and indigenous. These
factors are in turn set in the context of international influences
the rise and fall of the oil boom, the activities of the IBRD and
IMF, the decline of export earnings and the fiscal difficulties of
the state. Since its original publication in 1986, Indonesia: The
Rise of Capital has been the best selling academic book on
Indonesian politics and the most cited in the SSCI and Google
Scholar citation indexes.
About the Author
At the time of this publication in 1986, Richard Robison was
Senior Lecturer in the Asian Studies Program at Murdoch University.
He is now Emeritus Professor at Murdoch University and has been
Professor of Political Economy at the International Institute of
Social Studies in The Hague (20032006) andProfessor and Director of
the Australian Research Councils Special Centre for Research on
Political and Social Change in Contemporary Asia (19951999). He is
the author, editor of 14 books and has published in major
international journals, including World Politics, World
Development, Pacific Review, New Political Economy and the Journal
of Development Studies. Professor Robison has been awarded Senior
research fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the
Leverhulme Trust.
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