Table of Contents

Part I: Early Life 1. Introduction 2. Bureaucrat’s Son to Nationalist Intellectual Part II: The Sukarno Period 3. The ‘Press of Political Struggle’: The first Indonesia Raya 4. ‘Speaking to the World’: Author and Cultural Figure Part III: The Suharto Period 5. The ‘Golden Boy of the New Order’: Indonesia Raya Re-Established 6. Cultural Broker under the New Order Part IV: Denouement 7. The Editor after Indonesia Raya 8. Conclusion: A Life Recalled Postscript: The Objectification of Mochtar Lubis

About the Author

David T. Hill is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Fellow of the Asia Research Centre on Social, Political and Economic Change at Murdoch University, Western Australia. His publications include The Press in New Order Indonesia, and (co-authored with Krishna Sen) The Internet in Indonesia’s New Democracy (published by Routledge) and Media, Culture and Politics in Indonesia.

Reviews

"Hill's book is important for a number of reasons. First, its subject is a phenomenal figure who looms large not only in Indonesian media but also in Indonesian politics. Second, Hill has done a great job as an academic writer. Third, this book is also important because it sets a context for Lubis' struggle [... ] Hill is successful in producing a richly nuanced account of Lubis and the events that shaped life of the famed journalist." - Her Suheryanto, review in The Jakarta Post, Sunday, April 04, 2010