Indonesia : Crisis and Transformation, 1965-1968

At the beginning of 1965, Pres. Sukarno, who had led Indonesia to independence in 1949 from Dutch colonial rule, was still the country¹s unchallenged leader and had been named ³President for Life.² But he pursued an increasingly leftist course that ignored the economic needs of his people. Within the next several years, the Army crushed Indonesia¹s Communist Party and unseated Sukarno, and a pragmatic new order emerged led by Gen. Suharto. This is an account of that stormy transition period as seen by an American Foreign Service officer assigned to Indonesia at that time. Includes an analysis of the relationships between events in Indonesia and Vietnam in the 1960s.Green, Marshall is the author of 'Indonesia : Crisis and Transformation, 1965-1968', published 1999 under ISBN 9780788163630 and ISBN 0788163639.