Description
Book SynopsisA journey into the world's most populous Muslim nation as it struggles to emerge from dictatorship and corporate exploitation
Trade Review'A country whose population numbers nearly as high as the US, Indonesia is almost hidden from consciousness. However, Vltchek turns on a powerful spotlight' -- Michael Albert, co-founder of Z Communications and author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003).
'[The author] portrays and thoroughly analyses what has been experienced by most Indonesian people today: poverty, fear and the humiliations created by corrupt and greedy elites' -- Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, National Co-ordinator of Indonesian Legal Aid Society for Women and former MP.
'Burns with indignation against injustice and untruth. Andre Vltchek is in the great tradition of investigative journalists like John Pilger, Seymour Hersh and Robert Fisk. He combines omnivorous curiosity with fearless tenacity' -- Andrew Beatty, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Brunel University, and author of A Shadow Falls: In the Heart of Java (2009).
'Vltchek is a powerfully informed writer whose reports are based on firsthand observations. He shows how Indonesia is a nearly perfect specimen of the free market at its purest and dirtiest stage of devolution' -- Michael Parenti, author of The Face of Imperialism (2011).
Table of Contents1. Introduction
2. From Colony to Dictatorship
3. Extreme Capitalism
4. Democracy and Human Rights
5. Jakarta Bleeding the Islands
6. Corruption Kills
7. The environment, plundering of natural resources and consequent natural disasters
8. Collapse of Infrastructure
9. Islam
10. Cultures, Education and Intellectual Life
11. Indonesia and its Neighbours: A big but destitute bully
12. Conclusion
Notes
Index
