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Indonesia’s New Order within Global Empire: An Arena for the Battle of Capital’s Managers

Postcolonial Indonesian political history cannot be understood fully without situating it within the shifting postwar American empire. The emergence of the New Order (1966-1998) at the juncture toward neoliberalism and the financialization of commodities while under technocratic developmentalist aid determined particular elite relations as managers of empire .

3.06.2026

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Talking Democracy While Tearing It: Authoritarian Conservatism in New Order Indonesia

Indonesian conservative thinkers claimed to save their country from populist socialism of Sukarno and the Left. They dreamed of a democratic polity free from “extremism” and underdevelopment. Instead, what they built was an authoritarian, corporatist, and developmentalist regime. This essay (re)examines their ideological justification for it.

7.04.2026