Resisting Dictatorship: Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia

Author: Vincent Boudreau

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, pp. 290

Compares democracy movements in Indonesia, Burma and the Philippines from a social movement perspective. Charts post-colonial evolution. On Indonesia, examines the Sukarno years, the 1965 coup and anti-communist massacres, initial student protests in the 1970s under Suharto, and the complexities of party politics in the 1980s and 1990s. Ch. 10 ‘Indonesia’s Democracy Protests’ (pp. 215-37) covers the build-up of resistance to Suharto, the role of the student demonstrations and the end of the Suharto regime.

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Volume One -> E. Resisting Oppressive, Dictatorial, Military or Authoritarian Rule -> E. II. Asia (and Australasia) -> E. II.2. Indonesia and Resistance to Indonesian Occupation -> E. II.2.a. The Long Struggle to Topple Suharto 1988-1998

Cross referenced in:

Volume One -> E. II. Asia (and Australasia) -> E. II.8. The Philippines: 1983-86 and 2001 -> E. II.8.a. Resisting Marcos, 1983-86

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