Essays Tagged: "Sukarno"

Australia in Vietnam.

period cannot be fully understood without reference to Indonesia." Indonesia, through leader Ahmed Sukarno had made strong relationships with communist China. Fear of having a communist nation right ... he already large anti-communist stance. Indonesia had taken over West New Guinea from the Dutch. Dr Sukarno threatening "more confrontation," Australia just let it go as, without support from the US a ...

(5 pages) 65 0 3.9 Jul/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

"There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down" (David Ricardo)

estimated 500,000 people had been killed in the unrest. The events of 1965 and 1966 left President Sukarno severely weakened. In 1966, he was forced to transfer key political and military powers to t ... to, 1999)A puppet legislative assembly later named Suharto as acting president effectively removing Sukarno in 1967 (Ito, 1999). Suharto concentrated polices in economic rehabilitation and development ...

(8 pages) 102 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

"Independence was not simply given; it is something for which Indonesia had to fight." Discuss this statement in the period leading up to Indonesia's independence in 1949

Indonesia claimed its independence on August 17 1945. The first president of the new nation was Sukarno. (World Book Encyclopedia, 1992, Volume 10, pg 202.) When the Japanese began to lose World W ... 2, Volume 10, pg 201.) On August 14 1945, the Japanese surrendered to the Allies and two days later Sukarno proclaimed the independent Republic of Indonesia. (Burke, 1999, pg 114.) On August 18 ...

(2 pages) 55 2 3.3 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

How has Australia's relation with Asian nations changed?

m. There were nationalist movements in British India led by Gandhi, in the Ditch East Indies led by Sukarno and in French Indochina by Ho Chi Minh. These nationalist movements which had begun at the s ... ustralian Embassy in Jakarta was burnt. In 1965 the army seized power in Indonesia and a year later Sukarno was replaced by Prsident Suharto. During The Suharto years, from 1966 to 1998 there was an i ...

(2 pages) 41 0 4.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Lessons of the Imperialist Propaganda (Indonesian Colonial History).

se "the idea of Indonesia" to grow and unfold throughout the nation. As four prominent Indonesians--Sukarno, Hatta, Ki Hadja Dewantara, and Kyai Haji Mas Mansur--were appointed to head Putera (the suc ... ormation of BPUPKI, a Japan-organised committee responsible for preparing Indonesia's independence. Sukarno, an Indonesian statesman who will later become Indonesia's first president, headed this comm ...

(3 pages) 29 1 4.8 Sep/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Political Islam in Indonesia.

nd Nadhlatul Ulama (NU)). The nation was divided between two political versions of Indonesia: PNI's Sukarno's Indonesia based on the Five Principles of Pancasila and Masyumi's Muhammad Natsir's Indone ... with Islam as the state's foundational principle.When the Constitutional Assembly was dissolved by Sukarno in 1959, and Indonesia entered the period of Guided Democracy, Islamic parties were subjecte ...

(8 pages) 59 0 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Given that 88% of Indonesians are Muslim, why is political Islam not dominant?

ment, and the role of the Indonesian Muslim community.From the period of the Guided Democracy under Sukarno, and following that, Suharto's New Order, Islamic parties have been subjected to repression ... d Islam as the state's foundational principle.In 1959, the Constitutional Assembly was dissolved by Sukarno and the Guided Democracy was put in place. During the period of Guided Democracy, the NU was ...

(5 pages) 24 0 3.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Research - The year of living Dangerously - Sukarno, Konfrontasi, Wayang Kuilt

A President Sukarno - biograhySukarno (June 6, 1901 - June 21, 1970) was the first President of Indonesia. He he ... e helped the country win its independence from the Netherlands and was President from 1945 to 1967. Sukarno was forced from power by one of his generals, Suharto, who formally became President in Marc ... arrested several times during the 1930s and was in jail when Japan occupied the archipelago in 1942.Sukarno's vision for the 1945 Indonesian constitution comprised the Pancasila(Indonesia 5 point stat ...

(5 pages) 24 1 3.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Globalisation and Indonesia's Economy

ent of President Soeharto - who was in the process of taking over from Indonesia's first president, Sukarno - put very heavy emphasis on the foreign investment aspects of globalisation. It was believe ...

(9 pages) 38 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

'The Japanese Occupation marked 'a new dawn for Southeast Asia'. Can this statement be justified with regards to the development of nationalism in Southeast Asia?

to exploit the freedom they had been offered to promote the nationalist cause in a guarded fashion. Sukarno and Hatta were to head the government and feign to aid the Japanese while Sjahrir and Sjarif ... he nationalists rallied the masses through the use of the loudspeakers, radio and cinema available. Sukarno promoted the idea of Indonesia independence over the Japanese- controlled radio. He used eve ...

(12 pages) 23 0 0.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History