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POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION
IN INDONESIA

1. Introduction

wo prominent historical phenomena have character
Tized the East Asian World during the last two decades
th
of the 20 century. Firstly, the political and security stability in
both Northeast and Southeast Asia was affected by the end of
the Cold War and especially, by the disintegration of the former
Soviet Union, which has lessened the conflict of the superpow-
ers. Secondly, the rise, of East Asia at the center of an unprec-
edented economic developmental miracle has brought a vast
transformation to the political, economic and security configura-
tions of the region.
Now here is the transformation more striking than in East
and Southeast Asian, the region including Japan, China, the ‘four
tigers’ of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, and
the emerging ‘tigers’ of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia in
the Southeast Asia. The regional transformation has not only
affected the entitles within the region itself, but has also changed
global politics and international relations. The transformation
is not limited to the economic sector, the political and security
realms have also experienced vast changes, with a trend to-

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