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...Donald K. Emmerson Military Ascendancy and Political Culture: A Study of Indonesia's Golkar . By Leo Suryadinata . Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies , Southeast Asia Series, No. 85, 1989 . xiii , 223 pp. $11.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Jamie Mackie Golkar of Indonesia: An Alternative to the Party System . By David Reeve . New York : Oxford University Press , 1987 . xiv, 405 pp. $48.00. Legal Aid in Indonesia . By Daniel S. Lev . Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Working Paper 44. Clayton, Australia : Monash...

... University Leo Suryadinata has sent the following response to Donald K. Emmerson's review of his Military Ascendancy and Political Culture: A Study of Indonesia's Golkar, published in JAS 50.1 (February 1991):217-18: Professor Donald Emmerson disagrees with me on my interpretation of Golkar. He...

..., 1971 ), pp. 56 – 68 ; and Nishi-hara Masashi , Golkar and the Indonesian Elections of 1971 , ( Ithaca : Cornell University Modern Indonesia Project , 1972 ). 9 For a detailed discussion of Jogjakarta government and society through the 1950s, see Selosoemardjan , Social...

... Fortunately, this questionable interpretation is not woven into the fabric of the book, which recounts straightforwardly the history of Golkar from its antecedents in the 1950s through its fourth national congress in 1988. Also useful are the appendixes, which furnish the names of Golkar's leaders, reprint...

... an opponent of ICMI, did not. All three political parties, the government's own Golkar (for Golongan Karya, Functional Groups), the Islamic PPP (Partai Persatuan Pembangunan, Development Unity Party), and the nationalist plus Christian PDI were represented. The Golkar and PPP contingents were headed...

... objective was to ask if and how this goal was accomplished. His method was to examine, through interviews and direct observation, the campaign behavior of the major organizational actors: Golkar, a previously heterogeneous collection of "functional groups" represented in Parliament, reorganized to become...

.... Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. Dutch G. 125.00 BOOK REVIEWS 539 ments with regency, subdistrict, and village-level observations. At the national level, according to Ward, Golkar was a coalition of four major forces: the "functional groups" of the pre-election Golkar; the armed forces...

..., and the "governmental party" (Golkar), and PDI (the dwindling remains of the old nationalists). This is a fruitful way to approach the problem, but it creates difficulties for him when he argues that Golkar "represents the abangan-priyayi tradition and is basically a Javanese-dominated party" (p. 130). This is half...

... : Yale University Southeast Asia Studies , 1959 ), 25 . 8 One way to obtain a more adequate sense of the complicated nature of GOLKAR organization, and of the apparent rationales behind the program as it unfolded prior to the 1971 general elections, is to peruse Indonesian Current Affairs...

... unless they resigned and should be barred from working as party functionaries during the campaign unless they took a leave without pay. The rule change denied the formerly governing Golkar much of the support that it previously enjoyed from the bureaucracy, the members of which had been obliged to belong...

... change denied the formerly governing Golkar much of the support that it previously enjoyed from the bureaucracy, the members of which had been obliged to belong to Golkar and ordered to vote for it at polls in their places of work. King judges that this rule change denied Golkar its likely winning...

...." Shortly after the 1971 elections, a triumphant Golkar, the ruling party, shocked the Muslim community by awarding the cabinet position for the ministry to a non-NU technocrat closely linked to Golkar (Ward 1974:97; Hering and Willis 1973:40). At the same time, the principle of "monoloyalty" (loyalitas...

... sophisticated statements that provide significant insights into Southeast Asian human ecology. But we have yet to see the construction of adequate theory to complement these insights. H. LEEDOM LEFFERTS, JR. Drew University Golkar of Indonesia: An Alternative to the Party System. By DAVID REEVE. New York...

... Masashi . 1972 . Golkar and the Indonesian Elections of 1971 . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, Monograph Series . Nordlinger Eric . 1977 . Soldiers in Mufti: Military Coups and Governments . Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall . Onghokham . 1978...

... of a ruling party (Golkar) to the kidnapping of democracy activists. For supporters of Indonesian democratization, the dwifungsi legacy must be confronted head on, and notwithstanding its theoretical modesty, Honna s book offers sobering material for re ection. One of this study s many worthy aims...

... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES religion" while encouraging personal piety. Indeed, this organization was formed not so much to capitalize on the growing religious sentiments of the new, urban Islamic middle class but to enable the government's own party, Golkar, to win the 1997 elections and thereby secure...

... political parties: the Democratic Party, Prosperous Justice Party, and Golkar. In chapter 4, the book beautifully captures the potential for winning a seat in the Indonesian Parliament without resorting to money politics. Kramer describes candidate Ambo as a politician with strong morals and integrity...

... even joined Suharto's Golkar Party, irking the traditionalist Ba ‘Alawi scholars. As explained in chapter 6, Habib Luthfi faced a different set of challenges and opportunities after 1998’s transition to democracy. Alatas describes the onset of militarized mawlid s (celebration of the Prophet...

... is ventured at all of domestic politics or foreign relations, an obvious gap. The best of the integrated overviews is Leo Suryadinata's finely crafted essay on Indonesia. His discussions of internal Golkar conflicts and dissidence generally are candid, pointed, and innovative. For Malaysia, Y. Mansoor Marican...