Young Soeharto : : The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945 /

Young Soeharto : : The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945 / / David Jenkins.

When a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lt Gen Soeharto full executive authority in March 1966, Indonesia was a deeply divided nation, fractured along ideological, class, religious and ethnic lines. Soeharto took a country in chaos, the largest in Southeast Asia, and transformed it into one of the “...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
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Jenkins, David,
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (503 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • A Note on Spelling and Names
  • A Note on Military Organization
  • Maps
  • List of Charts
  • Preface
  • Soeharto Family Tree
  • 1 “The Sultan came to me and asked about that family tree”
  • 2 “The cork on which the Netherlands floats”
  • 3 “They regard Holland as a very weak power”
  • 4 “An invisible motivating force”
  • 5 “What kind of Islam is this?”
  • 6 “Soeharto is a closed book”
  • 7 “I was suited to the disciplined life of the military”
  • 8 A reassuringly familiar world
  • 9 A policeman for the Japanese
  • 10 An armed force conjured out of nothing
  • 11 “The whole island was ablaze with enthusiasm”
  • 12 “Don’t make them too strong!”
  • 13 “Soeharto was a cautious man”
  • 14 “Why did they choose Soeharto?”
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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