1st Edition

Leadership on Java Gentle Hints, Authoritarian Rule

Edited By Hans Antlov, Sven Cederroth Copyright 1994
    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    This text examines how leaders on Java rise to power, stay in power and pass their power on. Most of these essays deal with rural power but a few address more general issues of leadership.

    Chapter 1 Introduction, Hans Antlöv, Sven Cederroth; Chapter 2 The Development and Demise of the Traditional Javanese Aristocracy, Sartono Kartodirdjo; Chapter 3 Traditional Leadership in Rural Java, Ina Slamet-Velsink; Chapter 4 The Ideology of Javanese-Indonesian Leadership, Niels Mulder; Chapter 5 Village Leaders and the New Order, Hans Antlöv; Chapter 6 Pamong Desa or Raja Desa?, Jean-Luc Maurer; Chapter 7 Village Elections in Central Java, Frans Hüsken; Chapter 8 New Order Modernization and Islam, Sven Cederroth; Chapter 9 Can the Javanese Do Business?, François Raillon;

    Biography

    Hans Antlöv, Sven Cederroth

    'one finds the description to be fascinating and pitched at an unusual level - not the national arena, but in the setting of the village. straightforward information, rich vignettes, and illustrative cas studies involving rural leadership formation under the New Order a good baseline for investigations of village officials in the post-New Order' - William Case, Asian Studies Review