Oligarchy and the End of Reformasi in Indonesia

Vedi R. Hadiz (FASSA) is Professor of Asian Studies and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, where he was Director. He has also been Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor International at the University of Melbourne. At Murdoch University, he was Professor of Asian Societies and Politics and at the National University of Singapore, Associate Professor of Sociology. He has written on oligarchy and capitalism, democracy and populism and labour movements in Indonesia/Southeast Asia and the Middle East.Richard Robison (FASSA) is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor, Murdoch University. He was formerly Professor of Political Economy at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the Netherlands, and Director of the Australian Research Council’s Special Centre for the Study of Political and Economic Change in Asia at Murdoch University, Australia. He has written widely on the political economy of Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

"Readers with an interest in Indonesian politics will eagerly welcome this updated version of a classic study. Reorganising Power in Indonesia set the parameters of debate on the nature of politics in post-Soeharto Indonesia and it remains an indispensable volume today."-- Edward Aspinall, Australian National University

• Part I Historical And Theoretical FrameworksIntroductionChapter 1 Theories of Change and the Case Of IndonesiaChapter 2 The Genesis Of Oligarchy: Soeharto’s New Order, 1965–1982Part II The Triumph Of Oligarchy, 1982–1997Chapter 3 Hijacking the MarketsChapter 4 Capturing the Political RegimeChapter 5 Disorganising Civil SocietyPart III The Oligarchy In Crisis, 1997–1998 Chapter 6 Economic CatastropheChapter 7 Political UnravellingPart IV Oligarchy ReconstitutedChapter 8 Reorganising Economic PowerChapter 9 Reorganising Political PowerChapter 10 Can Oligarchy Survive?Part V Power ReorganisedChapter 11 Power Reorganised: Towards the End of ReformasiChapter 12 Economic Nationalism and State CapitalismChapter 13 Oligarchy Beyond Reformasi: New Tensions and Contradictions