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When the New Order regime of President Suharto collapsed in May 1998, the prospects for achieving civilian control seemed bleak due to several factors: the economy had been crippled by the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, violence had flared up all across the archipelago, and there had been a long history of political participation, violent repression, and economic activity by the Armed Forces of Indonesia (ABRI, later renamed National Military of Indonesia, TNI).1
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© 2013 Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, Philip Lorenz and Paul W. Chambers
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Croissant, A., Kuehn, D., Lorenz, P., Chambers, P.W. (2013). Indonesia: The Democratization of Personal Control. In: Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia. Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137319272_6
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