Indonesian Presidency

Angus McIntyre is senior lecturer in the Department of Politics at LaTrobe University.

This book is indeed a good contribution to comparative politics and political science in general as well as to the political history of Indonesia.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The Return to the 1945 ConstitutionPart 3 Part IChapter 4 The Personal Rule of SukarnoChapter 5 Suffering from the Quiet: Sukarno's Desolation and His Politics of Being CentralChapter 6 Aging and Fear of Death: Sukarno's Politics of Rejuvenation and His Quest for ImmortalityChapter 7 Sukarno: Abandoned by History?Part 8 Part IIChapter 9 The Personal Rule of SoehartoChapter 10 Soeharto's ComposurePart 11 Part IIIChapter 12 Megawati and the Emergence of Constitutional RuleChapter 13 Childhood and Youth of Megawati SukarnoputriChapter 14 Megawati Sukarnoputri's Political ApprenticeshipChapter 15 Challenging SoehartoChapter 16 The Fall of SoehartoChapter 17 Democracy ReturnsChapter 18 A Female President?Chapter 19 Megawati Sukarnoputri as Vice PresidentChapter 20 President Megawati SukarnoputriChapter 21 ConclusionChapter 22 Postscript: The Indonesian Parliamentary Elections of 2004