Chinese Big Business in Indonesia

<p>The disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the fall of </p><p>Soeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised authoritarianism and </p><p>economic protectionism that allowed large Chinese conglomerates to dom- </p><p>inate Indonesia's private sector. Contrary to all expectations most of the </p><p>major capitalist groups though damaged considerably by the Asian Crisis </p><p>managed to cope with the ensuing monumental political and economic </p><p>changes and now thrive again albeit within a new democratic environment. </p><p>In this book Christian Chua assesses the state of capital before during </p><p>and after the financial and political crisis of 1997/1998 and analyses the </p><p>changing relationships between business and the state in Indonesia. Using a </p><p>distinct perspective that combines cultural and structural approaches on </p><p>Chinese big business with exclusive material derived from interviews with </p><p>some of Indonesia’s major business leaders Chua identifies the strategies </p><p>employed by tycoons to adapt their corporations to the post-authoritarian </p><p>regime and provides a unique insight into how state-business relationships </p><p>in Indonesia have evolved since the crisis. </p><p>Chinese Big Business in Indonesia is the first major analysis of capital in </p><p>Indonesia since the fall of Soeharto and will be of interest to graduate </p><p>students and scholars of political economy political sociology economics </p><p>and business administration as well as to practitioners having to do with </p><p>Southeast Asian business and politics. </p>