RINGKASAN EKSEKUTIF Persaingan yang terus meningkat antara Presiden terpilih Joko Widodo dan Koalisi Merah Putih Koalisi yang memegang mayoritas kursi di parlemen. Koalisi Merah Putih yang mendukung Prabowo Subianto untuk Presiden melancarkan serangan dengan mengubah aturan posisi kepemimpinan di parlemen. Hal ini memungkinkan mereka untuk mengambil posisi ketua dan wakil ketua di parlemen. Pada saat […]
ARTIKEL: Indonesia, 1965: Merehabilitasi Korban, Merehabilitasi Revolusi
Artikel ini akan diterbitkan tahun depan dalam sebuah buku kumpulan tulisan saya tentang topik-topik yang berkaitan dengan ulangtahun ke50 persitiwa-persitiwa 1965 – yaitu: digulingkannya Sukarno, pembantaian massa pendukung Sukarno dan didirikannya Orde Baru. Diterbitkan sekarang untuk menyambut film SENYAP, film sequel buat film JAGAL, yang baru-baru ini mulai ditayangkan. Artikel ini bisa juga dibaca dalam […]
TRUE STORY PIECE: The Sawangan Incident, 2001 by Max Lane
I never liked sitting in the room at seminars and conferences where I was the organiser. I had organised some very big conferences, with speakers who were not just boring academics, but national liberation leaders from East Timor, communist radicals from India, trade union militants from the United States, men and women who had been […]
ARTICLE: Post-elections Indonesia: towards a crisis of governance? by Max Lane
New article on the politics of Indonesia after the parliamentary and presidential elections. For full article, click here
The most important book on Indonesian politics out of Australia.
Showcase state : the illusion of Indonesia’s accelerated modernisation, edited by Rex Mortimer, Angus and Robertson, 1973. With articles by, inter alia, Rex Mortimer, Herb Feith, Ken Ward, Peter Britton and Alan Smith. A tradition of analysis that needs reviving.
ARTIKEL ANALISA: Jarak Tipis di antara Kedua Calon Presiden Indonesia oleh Max Lane
(Artikel ini diterbitkan dalam bahasa Inggeris di ISEAS PERSPECTIVES pada tanggal Juli 4, 2014, sebelum pemilihan presiden berlangsung pada tanggal Juli 9. Artikel ini diterjemahkan sukarela oleh Mohamad Zaki Hussein. Terima kasih.) Setelah periode lobi pra-kampanye yang panjang untuk membentuk koalisi politik, kampanye pemilihan presiden telah berjalan selama tiga minggu. Sudah ada tiga debat di antara […]
W.S. Rendra’s THE STRUGGLE OF THE NAGA TRIBE translated by Max Lane
W.S. Rendra’s THE STRUGGLE OF THE NAGA TRIBE translated by Max Lane is now available as part of THE METHUEN DRAMA ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN ASIAN PLAYS (2014)
ARTICLE: Gap Narrows between Candidates in Indonesian Presidential Elections by MAX LANE
After an extensive pre-campaign lobbying period to form political coalitions, the presi- dential election campaigning has been ongoing for three weeks. There have been three nationally televised debates between the two candidates (with each debate focusing on a specific topic) and a nationally televised “dialogue” between the presi- dential candidates and the Indonesian Chamber of […]
ARTICLE: The politics of the Indonesian Presidential elections 2014 by Max Lane
According to most Indonesian polls, former provincial businessman, mayor of Solo and governor of Jakarta Joko Widodo has lost a substantial lead to former general Prabowo Subianto in the current general election campaign. The two are now running neck and neck. Prabowo is responsible for the kidnapping and torture of more than 20 pro-democracy activists […]
SOON OUT: UNFINISHED NATION: Memori revolusi, aksi massa dan sejarah Indonesia – Max Lane
Akan terbit Mei 20. Mulai beredar segera sesudah itu di toko buku.
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