Table of Contents

Preface

Map of Indonesia

Map of Jakarta

PART ONE - HUBRIS OF THE EARTH

Loomings

Legacy

Crisis of Confidence

Predatory State

Forcing Reform

'Closer to God'

Impeccably Amok

Coup a la Java

PART TWO - TYRANNY OF THE ELITE

Zing-a-Bust

Photocopying Soeharto

'Cruelism versus Cruelism'

'Stay Indoors'

Nail of the Universe

Oligarchy of the Party Bosses

Under-Democracy

'Slander is Worse Than Murder'

Heroes of Integration

PART THREE- MELEE OF THE ELITE

Acrimony and Larceny

Guerilla Politics

Shock Therapy

East Timor Writ Large

'Raid Cendana'

State of Emergency

Epilogue

Appendix I Rupiah Exchange Rate

Appendix II Short Biographies

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

Notes on the text

Index

About the Author

KEVIN O'ROURKE graduated from Harvard University before moving to Jakarta, where he has worked for eight years as an investment banker, consultant and political risk analyst. Throughout the height of the political transition, he scrutinised events first-hand by authoring the Van Zorge Report, an independent bi-weekly journal on politics and economics. Having studied Indonesian politics as an undergraduate at Harvard University, Kevin O'Rourke worked for three years as a bank analyst and equity research director in Jakarta's pre-crisis capital market. Compelled by the political story that was unfolding, he launched a bi-weekly journal on Indonesian politics under the aegis of a political risk consulting firm, Van Zorge, Heffernan and Associates. The Van Zorge Report, which he authored for two years, gained a reputation as the best source of original, in-depth analysis of Indonesia's fast-moving political landscape. Subscribers included multi-national corporations, embassies and donor agencies in Jakarta.