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Economic Change in Modern Indonesia, 2016
Indonesia is often viewed as a country with substantial natural resources which has achieved solid economic growth since the 1960s, but which still faces serious economic challenges. In 2010, its per capita GDP was only nineteen per cent of that of the Netherlands, and twenty-two per cent of that of Japan. In recent decades, per capita GDP has fallen behind that of neighbouring countries such as Malaysia and Thailand, and behind China. In this accessible but thorough new study, Anne Booth explains the long-term factors which have influenced Indonesian economic performance, taking into account the Dutch colonial legacy and the reaction to it after the transfer of power in 1949. The first part of the book offers a chronological study of economic development from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, while the second part explores topics including the persistence of economic nationalism and the ongoing tensions between Indonesia's diverse regions.
The Growing Maturity of Indonesian Economic History
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In recent years two high quality overviews of the economic history of Indonesia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been published that testify of the growing maturity of the field. The two books – The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities by Anne Booth (1998), and The Emergence of a National Economy. An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000 by a team of authors (Howard Dick, Vincent Houben, Thomas Lindblad and Thee Kian Wie) (2002) – are written by distinguished experts in the field. Both books also aim to be comprehensive, but interestingly, they do this in very different ways. But let me focus on the similarities first: apart from the obvious fact that they want to present an economic history of Indonesia over the past twohundred years, they also have in common that they stress the links between economic and political history. Both try ‘to bring the state back in’, by focussing on the process of state formati...
In the last decades of the twentieth century the small and medium-sized nations of East and South-East Asia have begun a process of potentially enormous political and economic transformation. Explosive growth has occurred already in many parts of the region, and the more slowly growing countries are attempting to emulate this vanguard group. The impact of the region upon the world economy has increased rapidly and is likely to continue to do so in the future.
Indonesian Political Economy: A Historical Analysis
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Indonesia is one of the largest countries in the world in demographic, geographical and economic terms. Rich in natural resources, it is a member of the G20 and one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. From its independence in 1949, Indonesia lived dramatic changes in its political and economic system, moving from being an authoritarian state with a quasi-planned economy to being a (albeit flawed) democracy with a free market system. This paper is aimed to analyse briefly the most important phases of the post-colonial development path of the country, trying to highlight the events which mainly changed Indonesian economy and from this understand which are its sources of strength and weakness. The paper is therefore divided into three main parts. The first covers the most salient events that occurred in the country from its independence till mid-1990s, with a particular emphasis on Suharto’s “New Order” regime. The second part mainly focuses on the Asian Financial Crisis, explaining its causes and its political and economic effects on Indonesia. Finally, the last part deals with Indonesia in XXI century, focusing on the similarities and differences with the previous period and on the effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Indonesia.
Challenging Changes: Current Themes in the Economic History of Indonesia
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Indonesia's rapid economic transformation during recent decades has discredited interpretations that economic stagnation was inherent to the country's economy and society. It has attracted the attention of academics willing to study the past in order to understand the present and predict the future. Old issues in Indonesia's rich economic historiography have been debated at greater length and new ones have been broached. Five compilations of conference papers suggest that the economic history of Indonesia has indeed entered a state of flux. 3 This article takes stock of some of the changes in the recent historiography of Indonesia's economy during the 19th and 20th centuries. It clusters research published since the 1970s by major themes, roughly in chronological order.
Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 2016
The history of the Faculty of Economics and Administration (FEA) at the University of Malaya, the oldest faculty of economics in Malaysia, is intertwined with the history of the nation of Malaysia. In response to the nation's push for economic development, from modest beginnings in 1966, FEA has been growing from strength to strength. With remarkable agility, it has responded to changes both locally and globally. In fact, changes at FEA have also closely reflected the changing economic landscape of the nation. This special issue of MJES in commemoration of the 50 th anniversary of the establishment of the faculty contains nine contributions on various topics and issues pertinent to Malay-sia's socioeconomic development since independence. http://www.myjurnal.my/filebank/published\_article/43642/1\_Norma\_and\_Yeoh.pdf https://www.dropbox.com/s/fs1f4ho6ywv7cjb/ykk-MJES-specialissue-v53n1-2016-intro-1-Norma-and-Yeoh.pdf
Journal of Southeast Asian economies, 2016
This edited book is a tribute to Thomas Lindblad, who contributed significantly to the development of Indonesian economic history in the Netherlands over the past thirty years. More importantly, it is an excellent and quite well-structured survey of current research on Indonesian economic history with contributions from both senior and junior players in this international field of study. The introduction, authored by both editors, sets out the thematic vectors along which Indonesia's colonial and postcolonial economy can be most fruitfully studied: trade and investment, entrepreneurship, and changing political regimes. Whilst the 2002 economic history by Howard Dick, Vincent Houben, Thomas Lindblad and Thee Kian Wee (The emergence of a national economy: An economic history of Indonesia, 1800-2000) focused on the intertwinement of globalisation, state-formation, and the emergence of a national economy, this volume addresses the interplay between foreign trade, economic actors, and the political economy. In doing so, it highlights the intersections between the economic activities of different socioethnic groups, the spatial distribution of economic activity, and temporal trajectories across the colonial and postcolonial regimes. The main part of this study consists of 16 chapters that are grouped into the three above-mentioned thematic domains. Changes and continuities in trade and investment are dealt with in the first section over four chapters. Anne Booth undertakes a long-term survey and analysis of the effects of imbalances in export and import growth between Java and the rest of the archipelago on regional development within Indonesia. Hal Hill compares the sectoral shifts, inter-sectoral labour productivity, and the demographics of six Southeast Asian countries and finds that, although structural change has been rapid everywhere, the phenomenon's multidimensionality has led to marked differences between the countries studied. Pim de Zwart et al. engage in a longue durée analysis of 'openness' (the share of trade in the total economy of Indonesia) and its impact on growth and wage levels. Contrary to neoliberal thinking, the correlation between the two was not straightforward; rather, it depended to a large extent on changing institutional contexts and unequal geographic distribution. Alex Claver examines the role of money in the Dutch colonial economy and perceives a gradual adaptation to the different needs of the European trading sector and the peasant economy. The second section on entrepreneurship, focusing on the economic roles of specific groups, consists of five chapters. Leonard Blussé addresses the role of Chinese sailors on VOC ships sailing to Europe during the late nineteenth century, and discusses recruitment arrangements as well as gives evidence on the harsh conditions on board. Freek Colombijn studies contractors and subcontractors in Medan's construction sector during the 1950s. He proposes the term 'complementarisasi' to describe the economic relationship between actors belonging to different ethnic