Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000Ohio University Center for International Studies/Ohio University Press, 2002 - 541 halaman Surabaya is Indonesia's second largest city but is not well known to the outside world. Yet in 1900, Surabaya was a bigger city than Jakarta and one of the main commercial centers of Asia. Collapse of sugar exports during the 1930s depression, followed by the Japanese occupation, revolution, and independence, brought on a long period of stagnation and retreat from the international economy. Not until the export boom of the 1990s did Surabaya regain prominence as Southeast Asia's leading non-capital-city industrial area. |
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... Soeharto not to seek reap- pointment for a seventh term . The Asian financial crisis began to be felt in Indonesia in July 1997. At first the government was confident of the country's " eco- nomic fundamentals ” but the rupiah kept ...
... Soeharto's eventual resig- nation were all played out there and relayed to the rest of the coun- try . Students , the military , civil leaders , and ordinary people in Surabaya knew they could not control events in Jakarta but at the ...
... Soeharto , by contrast , was always a usurper with blood on his hands , the blood of all those relatives , neighbors , and friends who died in the purge of 1966. He was never liked , never trusted , and his very oc- casional visits to ...
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Southeast Asian Studies: Debates and New Directions Cynthia Chou,Vincent Houben Pratinjau terbatas - 2006 |