Papers by David Bourchier
This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the a... more This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the Reference field.
ISEAS Publishing eBooks, Dec 31, 2001
Pustaka Utama Grafiti eBooks, 2006
Buku ini merupakan suatu instrumen yang luar biasa untuk memahami perubahan sosial dan politik di... more Buku ini merupakan suatu instrumen yang luar biasa untuk memahami perubahan sosial dan politik di Indonesia selama lebih dari tiga dekade.
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2022
Choice Reviews Online, 2007
Organicism, or the notion that political and legal institutions should reflect communalistic valu... more Organicism, or the notion that political and legal institutions should reflect communalistic values embedded in “traditional culture,” has played a significant part in Indonesia’s modern history. This chapter begins with a brief overview of organicism as a concept, linking it to German theories of the Volksgeist. It then examines the study of organicism in Indonesia and its expression in the state ideology of Pancasila, arguing that to understand it primarily in culturalist terms overlooks the profound extent to which it developed in conversation with Western ideas of the East. Organicism found expression in Indonesian constitutional thinking, in conservative political party programs, in the corporatist structures of political representation between the 1960s and the 1990s, and in the ideology of Soeharto’s New Order regime. In this sense, it foreshadows the exceptionalist “Asian values” rhetoric espoused by political leaders in Singapore and Malaysia in the 1990s. The conclusion notes that while each manifestation of organicism will be different, there are common features that enable comparison across cultures and movements, including right-wing nationalist movements currently on the rise in the West.
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Papers by David Bourchier
Beginning with an exploration of the origins of the theory of the organic state in Europe, this book explores how this influenced many young Indonesian scholars and ‘secular’ nationalists. It also looks in detail at the case of Japan, and identifies the parallels between the process by which Japanese and Indonesian nationalist scholars drew on European romantic organicist ideas to forge anti-Western national identities and ideologies. The book then turns to Indonesia's tumultuous history from the revolution to 1965, the rise of Soeharto, and how his regime used organicist ideology, together with law and terror, to shape the political landscape and consolidate control. In turn, it shows how the social and economic changes wrought by the government's policies, such as the rise of a cosmopolitan middle class and a rapidly growing urban proletariat, led to the failure of the corporatist political infrastructure and the eventual collapse of the New Order in 1998. Finally, the epilogue surveys the post Soeharto years to 2014, and how growing disquiet about the inability of the government to contain religious intolerance, violence and corruption has led to an increased readiness to re-embrace not only more authoritarian styles of rule but also ideological formulas from the past.