...Benedict R. O'G. Anderson Abdul Haris Nasution: A Political Biography . By C. L. M. Penders and Ulf Sundhaussen . St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press , 1985 . x, 295 pp. Photographs, Appendixes, Endnotes, Index. $37.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association...

...Guy J. Pauker Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare . By Abdul Haris Nasution , with an Introduction by Otto Heilbrunn. New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1965 . 324 pp. $5.50. BOOK REVIEWS 371 historiography to justfy them...

... to this and Our Future War," which should be of writer, are due to the "ahistorical attitude of real interest to students of military affairs. Indonesian traditional culture" and its continu- General Nasution emerges from these pages ing impact in an environment of self-activated as a lucid and sober strategist...

.... $7.50 372 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES to Guerrillas (1948-1949 These documents, of considerable importance to the student of the Indonesian war for independence, were written by Nasution as "Commander of the Army and Java Territorium" in the final year of the struggle against the Dutch. Reading them...

...P. C. I. Ayre Financial Institutions and Policies in Indonesia . By Anwar Nasution . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 1983 . xvii, 182 pp. Figures, Tables, Appendixes, Bibliography. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 680 JOURNAL...

... No. RM-3312-PR, Santa Monica, Calif., November 1963. Also Lev (Transition) makes use of military sources. 24 A perfect example of misrepresentation of military affairs by secondary sources is the interpretation given by anti-army newspapers to the reappointment of Colonel A. H. Nasution...

... A. LOCKARD University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Abdul Haris Nasution: A Political Biography. By C. L. M. PENDERS and ULF SuNDHAUSSEN. St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1985. x, 295 pp. Photographs, Appendixes, Endnotes, Index. $37.50 (cloth). If the revered late General Sudirman...

.... A fascinating interview by Amitav Acharya of Adnan Buyung Nasution, Former Director, the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation and human rights activist, comprises a chapter on an "Asian view" of human rights. Nasution strongly refutes the view that the issue of human rights is recent and Western inspired. He notes...

... studies in the Philippines as well as an examination of the linkages between mortality and development. J. S. PARSONS U.N. Fund for Population Activities, Bangkok Financial Institutions and Policies in Indonesia. By ANWAR NASUTION. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1983- xvii, 182 pp...

...Donald R. Snodgrass Macroeconomic Policies, Crises, and Long-Term Growth in Indonesia, 1965–90 . By Wing Thye Woo . Bruce Glassburner , and Anwar Nasution . Washington, D.C .: World Bank , 1994 . xiii, 216 pp. $13.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995...

... I N G T H Y E W O O , B R U C E GLASSBURNER, and A N W A R NASUTION. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1994. xiii, 216 pp. $13-95 (paper). This slim but useful volume is the Indonesian component of a World Banksponsored comparative study of macroeconomic policy in eighteen developing countries...

... celebra tion a mass meeting was held yesterday at 16.16 in Merdeka square at which an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 persons were in attendance. There were speeches by three speakers, Soemardi of the PKI [Communist Party vdK], Yunan Nasution of Masjumi and Mayor Sudiro. The speakers emphasized the WestIrian...

... 1965 COUP IN INDONESIA 243 earlier. Its control of the army was far more firm: Nasution, appointed Chief-of-Staff in 1955, had had ten years to consolidate control, and the relatively easy defeat of the 1958 PRRI-Permesta rebellion had increased his prestige as well as eliminated much of the regional...

... of Indonesia. Honolulu, Published for the National Science Foundation by the Pacific Scientific Information Center, 1961. 136 p. map. NASUTION, ABDUL HARIS. Der Guerillakrieg Grundlagen der Guerillakriegfuhrung aus der Sicht des indonesischen Verteidigungssystems in Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Koln, Briicken- U...

... revisionist study of the Cultivation System as a whole. JOHN INGLESON University of New South Wales Macroeconomic Policies, Crises, and Long-Term Growth in Indonesia, 1965-90. By W I N G THYE W O O , BRUCE GLASSBURNER, and ANWAR NASUTION. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1994. xiii, 216 pp. $13.95. This slim...

... institutions increased the problems facing the government in its attempt to control monetary aggregates. In his discussion of these matters, Nasution rightly lays emphasis on the unfair competition faced by the private banks due to the subsidization of the state banks, which dominate the banking sector. He...

... Southeast Asia, one might profit from being told more about such important figures as Thailand's Sarit Thanarat, Burma's Ne Win, or Indonesia's A. H. Nasution. There also are places where there is room for disagreement with particular value judgments, such as the assertion (on page 122) that General Ne Win...

...-minded Sjahrir in the distant exile of Grecian Rhodes; Hatta in intellectual exile in Djakarta; also Premier Djuanda, Chief of Staff Nasution, and Ruslan Abdulgani in the languid government offices of Djakarta. Seeking perfection, we could wish that Fischer had interviewed more persons, such as rebel...

... by spendthrifts, through General Nasution the "liberal democrat" sincere to a fault, to General Suharto's miraculous deliverance from murderous hands on the morning of 1st October. In short, this book makes no contribution to the serious student's understanding of the BOOK REVIEWS 439 coup and its aftermath. Very...

... $1 billion of modern equipment to that group which seems the only one capable of preventing an early communist victory, namely, the military? The discussion of the armed forces seems to overemphasize Nasution as the continuing dominant figure. It also fails to resolve two contradictory descriptions...