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...Lance Castles The Fall of Sukarno . By Tarzie Vittachi . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers , 1967 . 191 pp. $4.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 438 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES might be expected to have been much greater" (pp. 91-92...

...Stephen Sloan Sukarno: A Political Biography . By J. D. Legge . London : Allen Lane , 1972 , ix, 431 pp., Bibliographical Note, Index, €3.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS 749 Singapore's People's Action Party: Its History, for a party...

...William H. Frederick Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup: The Untold Story . By Helen-Louise Hunter . Westport, CT : Praeger Security International , 2007 . 216 pp. $75.00 (cloth) . Pretext for Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'État in Indonesia . John Roosa...

...J. D. Legge Sukarno and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence . By Bernhard Dahm . Revised and updated edition of Sukarnos Kampf um Indonesiens Unabhängigkeit. Translated from the German by Mary F. Somers Heidhues . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1969 . xvi, 374 pp. Illustrations...

...Daniel S. Lev Ideology in Indonesia: Sukarno's Indonesian Revolution . By Donald E. Weatherbee . Monograph Series No. 8. New Haven : Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies , 1966 . x, 135 pp. Bibliographic Note, Notes, Glossary, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Grant K. Goodman The Japanese and Sukarno's Indonesia: Tokyo-Jakarta Relations, 1951–1966 . By Masashi Nishihara . Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii, East-West Center Book (Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University) , 1976 . xvii, 244 pp. Tables...

... and presumed economic irrationality of the Sukarno years. Deepening pessimism, having reached its nadir in 1963–65 when cracks in the Guided Democracy structure were most visible and the Indonesian Communist Party seemed to be moving inexorably toward full control of the polity, was gradually reversed after...

... and growth of the Dutch colonial state, its decline and near-collapse between 1942 (Japanese invasion) and 1965 (downfall of Sukarno's Guided Democracy), and its revival under ex-colonial sergeant Suharto. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 List of References Alers Henri...

... and authoritarian rule by the proclamation in Sumatra of a provisional revolutionary government, claiming to supplant the government headed by President Sukarno. In Thailand, Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, who had replaced Field Marshal Pibul Song-gram, reasserted and tightened his dictatorial control. In the Middle...

... by President Sukarno at home and by the major Communist parties abroad. A Djakarta-Peking axis was the base of a vociferous confrontation against the West, and Communist youths spearheaded government-sponsored demonstrations against “neo-colonial” establishments within the country. Meanwhile, several non...

..., traces 94 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the relationship from the independence of Indonesia and the founding of the PRC in 1949, through the ups and downs of the early years, to the coup of 1 October 1965 and the subsequent Indonesian Army takeover of the Sukarno government. The emphasis in his analysis...

... a destabilizing blow to the government of President Sukarno and laid the way for the rise of Sukarno s successor, a little-known general by the name of Suharto. In her book, Sexual Politics in Indonesia, Saskia Wieringa suggests that there were in fact two coups. The rst was this intramilitary con ict...

..., Indonesia, from July 1965 to March 1969- During that period, the political and economic direction of Indonesia was violently and dramatically altered: Sukarnoism and the world's third largest communist party (PKI) were eliminated, and in their place General Suharto erected a bureaucratic authoritarian...

... the Indonesian scene knows that this period has been a turbulent one. The author rode his ambassadorial boat skillfully over rough seas and through unexpected currents. He was in frequent contact with the late President Sukarno, the charismatic, vain, often irrational and unpredictable leader of a nation of 120...

... the Indonesian by Benedict Anderson but received only sparing distribution un- der the auspices of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Two more recent chapters, one relating to the arts and handicrafts of Indonesia and the other, written before the so-called GESTAPU, entitled "Sukarno Promoter and Impediment...

..., Reinhardt maintains that "there was an ideological dimension to the Indonesian political process that better characterizes the Indonesian state under Sukarno." (p. 61) Albeit in a rather unsystematic way, Reinhardt then draws heavily on the work of van der Kroef, Willner and Geertz, as well as Benda...

... takes a middle road in the controversy concerning the extent of the Communist party's participation in the abortive coup, hypothesizing that Sukarno's sudden illness was the major variable influencing the Communist party to join the "progressive officers" movement, particularly since the party believed...

... the verdict, "President Sukarno can, if he chooses, get along without guided democracy but guided democracy as it exists today cannot get along without President Sukarno." The diverse sources of Indonesian political thought are traced in meticulous detail with a wealth of substantiating documentation drawn...

... built out of myths and slogans to shield a system of autocratic personalized rule." Finally, in the book's last sentence, comes the verdict, "President Sukarno can, if he chooses, get along without guided democracy but guided democracy as it exists today cannot get along without President Sukarno...

...Frank M. LeBar BOOK REVIEWS 757 life and it is looked upon as the picturesque repository of conservatism and unreality. Conversely, the political and social activists are the products of the secular state schools. Sympathy is not one of the qualities with which Takdir Alisjahbana views Sukarno...