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Southeast Asia After the Crisis: Challenges of Change in Indonesia

Issue Date October 1999
Volume 10
Issue 4
Page Numbers 69-83
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About the Author

Bambang Harymurti is the editor-in-chief of Tempo, Indonesia’s leading news magazine, and a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

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