Chinese Big Business in Indonesia (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series)

ISBN: 0415574242

Author: Chua, Christian

Condition: New

The disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the fall ofSoeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised authoritarianism andeconomic protectionism that allowed large Chinese conglomerates to dom-inate Indonesia's private sector. Contrary to all expectations, most of themajor capitalist groups, though damaged considerably by the Asian Crisis,managed to cope with the ensuing monumental political and economicchanges, and now thrive again albeit within a new democratic environment.In this book Christian Chua assesses the state of capital before, during,and after the financial and political crisis of 1997/1998 and analyses thechanging relationships between business and the state in Indonesia. Using adistinct perspective that combines cultural and structural approaches onChinese big business with exclusive material derived from interviews withsome of Indonesias major business leaders, Chua identifies the strategiesemployed by tycoons to adapt their corporations to the post-authoritarianregime and provides a unique insight into how state-business relationshipsin Indonesia have evolved since the crisis.Chinese Big Business in Indonesia is the first major analysis of capital inIndonesia since the fall of Soeharto, and will be of interest to graduatestudents and scholars of political economy, political sociology, economicsand business administration as well as to practitioners having to do withSoutheast Asian business and politics.