Young Soeharto
The Making of a Soldier, 1921-1945
$74.42
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2022
Summary
The first volume in a landmark three-part biographical series chronicling Soeharto’s rise to power.
When a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lieutenant General 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 ‘Asian miracle’ economies - only to leave it back on the brink of ruin when he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522878844 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522878849 |
| Author: | David Jenkins |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 882g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 155mm x 234mm |
David Jenkins
David Jenkins graduated in Arts/Law from the University of Melbourne and was an Asia foreign correspondent for many years. He covered the wars in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos for the Melbourne Herald and was the Jakarta correspondent in 1969-70. Awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study the communist insurgency in northeastern Thailand, he went on to run the Associated Press bureau in Vientiane during the final years of the Second Indochina War. After a four-year posting in Jakarta for the Far Eastern Economic Review, he wrote Suharto and His Generals- Indonesian Military Politics, 1975-83. Jenkins was foreign editor, and later Asia editor, of the Sydney Morning Herald and a senior research fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.
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