Indonesia: democracy and the promise of good governance ; [based on the 24th Annual Indonesia Update Conference held at the Australian National University in 2006]

The success or failure of democratic reform in Indonesia is a key question for Indonesia itself and for the surrounding region. Although Indonesia's transition to democracy holds out the promise of good governance, this cannot be taken for granted - as the recent military takeover in Thailand shows. This book is about the challenge of making democracy work in Asia's third-largest nation