Indonesia Rising: The Repositioning of Asia's Third Giant - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814380407 ISBN 13: 9789814380409

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012

Synopsis

There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia's moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy after 1998, Indonesia has held three popular elections with a low level of violence by the standards of southern Asia. Recetly its economic growth rate has been high (above 6 per cent a year) and rising, where China's has been dropping and the developed world has been in crisis. Indonesia's admission in 2009 to the G20 club of the world's most influential states seemed to confirm a status implied by its size, as the world's fourth-largest country by population, and the largest with a Muslim majority. Some international pundits have been declaring that Indonesia is the new star to watch, and that its long-awaited moment in the sun may at last have arrived.

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About the Author

Anthony Reid is a Southeast Asian historian in the Department of Political & Social Change at the Australian National University. He was founding Director both of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814380407
• ISBN 13: 9789814380409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Reid Anthony