Political Power and Communications in Indonesia

Karl D. Jackson, Lucian W. Pye, Karl D. Jackson, Lucian W. Pye

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780520357570
• eBook ISBN: 9780520311039
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

Few general books are currently available on Indonesia despite its enormous human and economic resources. Hence the importance of this book, which offeres the latest research of internationally respected scholars with extensive first-hand experience in the archipelago. Their particular concern is with the realities of power and the patterns of communication in a society distinguished by both its poverty and its great potential. The contributors to the volume span a wide spectrum of viewpoints, and present various interpretation of Indonesian society. Taken together, however, the essays support the thesis that Indonesia is a "bureaucratic polity"--a political system in which power is hierarchically organized, influence is monopolized by an official elite, and individuals outside officialdom have little effect on events. These authorities examine in depth such subjects as the role of the military, the impact of bureaucracy, the importance of political parties, the character of the mass media, and the direction of economic development as well as other matters essential for an understanding of current development in the country. Political Power and Communications in Indonesia is addressed not only to students of Indonesia or specialists in comparative politics and political development but quite as directly to persons seeking basic information about an extremely interesting and complex society. Its broad coverage makes it a veritable handbook about how government functions in Indonesia. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents 1
• Figures and Tables
• Contributors
• Preface
• PART I: Overview
• 1 Bureaucratie Polity: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Power and Communications in Ind onesia KARL D. JACKSON
• 2 The Political Implications of Stru cture and Culture in Indonesia KARL D. JACKSON
• PART II: Institutions
• 3 The Military: Structure, Procedures, and Effects on Indonesian Society ULF SUNDHAUSSEN
• 4 The Bureaucracy in Political Context: Weakness in Strength DONALD K. EMMERSON
• 5 Indonesia’s New Economic Policy and Its Sociopolitical Impl ications BRUCE GLASSBURNER
• 6 Participation and the Political Parties R. WILLIAM LIDDLE
• 7 Conceptions of Politics, Power, and Ideology in Contemporary Indonesian Islam ALLAN A. SAMSON
• PART III: Communications and Integration
• 8 The Mass Communications System in Indonesia
• 9 The Indonesian Press: An Editor’s Perspective NONO ANWAR MAKARIM
• 10 Cartoons and Monuments: The Evolution of Political Communication under the New Order BENEDICT R. O’G. ANDERSON
• 11 Bureaucratic Linkages and Policy-Making in Indonesia: BIMAS Revisited GARY E. HANSEN
• 12 Urbanization and the Rise of Patron -Client Relations: The Changing Quality of Interpersonal Communic ations in the Neighborhoods of Bandung and the Villages of West Java KARL D. JACKSON
• Conclusion
• 13 The Prospects for Bureaucratic Polity in Indonesia KARL D. JACKSON
• Bibliography
• Index