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Adam Schwarz has spent nearly two decades professionally engaged in Southeast Asia. For ten years he was a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review Jakarta, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Hanoi, covering political, economic, corporate, military and environmental affairs. A widely published writer on Indonesia and the region, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States and a Research Felow at Murdoch University's Asia Studies Centre in Australia. He is currently based in Singapore.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you only read one book about 20th century Indonesia, make sure it is A Nation in Waiting. The political landscape has suffered an earthquake since the book was written (even since it was updated) but this remains the most authoritative work on the Suharto years. Earthquake or no, his legacy will continue to shape the country for decades to come. Disclosure: friend of the author's. But also former journalistic competitor, so praise given grudgingly!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book has been the primary cause of all intervention to NU leadership by Suharto as K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid called him as stupid leader. Reading this book simply just like having compilation of Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) articles of Indonesia written by Adam Schwarz.