Pub Date : 2000-06-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2000.10415780
Helene van Klinken
Abstract This personal account of the events surrounding the United Nations ballot in East Timor on 30 August 1999 is written by an Australian whom the United Nations posted as a political assessment officer to the mountainous Ermera district south of Dili. The account, which covers the period between mid June and early September 1999, reveals a society that is remarkably unanimous in its rejection of Indonesian rule. This account is sharply at odds with portrayals made by Indonesian officialdom, in which the East Timorese are deeply divided between those favoring and those rejecting the Indonesian presence. The present account reveals the determined efforts of the entire range of Indonesian officials, both military and civilian, to stimulate conflict within East Timorese society by artificially boosting the pro-Indonesian side. Most obvious among these efforts were the militias, but they extended to pressuring civil servants, jailing independence leaders, vigorously asserting dubious legal arguments, and denying campaign opportunities to the independence side. That these efforts failed can primarily be attributed to the breadth of support for the independence side. Their supporters included students, “two-faced” civil servants, priests and nuns, and of course the hitherto invisible guerrilla army. Although it was constantly denied a public space, the independence campaign was effective because it conducted itself peacefully and with great restraint.
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Pub Date : 2000-06-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2000.10415785
S. Burchill
Abstract For over twenty years Australia has recognized the legitimacy of Indonesia's illegal and brutal occupation of East Timor. The decisive influence of the Jakarta lobby, a group of bureaucrats, academics, politicians, and journalists, ensured that “good relations” between Australia and Indonesia were maintained despite Jakarta's egregious human rights record in the territory. A distorted history of Suharto's rise to power, de jure recognition of Indonesia's sovereignty in East Timor, a secretly negotiated security agreement, and strident opposition to East Timor's independence were indicative of the Jakarta lobby's success in framing Australian foreign policy. However, after encouraging the Habibie government to resolve the East Timor issue in late 1998, the Howard government subsequently committed itself to supporting a UN-sponsored ballot in August 1999, when the East Timorese were given a choice of independence or continued integration with the Republic of Indonesia. The escalation of violence orchestrated by the Indonesian military and their militia proxies in response to an overwhelming vote for independence shocked the international community and encouraged the Howard government to organize and lead a UN-sanctioned multilateral peace enforcement mission in East Timor. The success of this deployment in pacifying the territory led to the departure of Indonesian forces from East Timor and the formal revoking of Indonesia's sovereign claim to the territory. It also signaled a break with past Australian diplomatic orthodoxy towards Indonesia and the declining influence of the Jakarta lobby on Australian public policy.
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Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1999.10415768
Leonora C. Angeles
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Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1999.10415765
Martin Hart-Landsberg, Paul Burkett
{"title":"A critique of the “mismatch” model","authors":"Martin Hart-Landsberg, Paul Burkett","doi":"10.1080/14672715.1999.10415765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415765","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84339,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars","volume":"31 1","pages":"37-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415765","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59811394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1999.12063276
V. Prashad
{"title":"The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years, by Noam Chomsky, et al./Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War, ed. Christopher Simpson","authors":"V. Prashad","doi":"10.1080/14672715.1999.12063276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1999.12063276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84339,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars","volume":"6 1","pages":"79-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14672715.1999.12063276","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59811701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1999.10415762
Vincent Boudreau
{"title":"Diffusing democracy? People power in Indonesia and the Philippines","authors":"Vincent Boudreau","doi":"10.1080/14672715.1999.10415762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84339,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars","volume":"31 1","pages":"3-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415762","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59811479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1999.10415767
G. Omvedt, A. Kapoor
{"title":"Big dams in India: Necessities or threats?","authors":"G. Omvedt, A. Kapoor","doi":"10.1080/14672715.1999.10415767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84339,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars","volume":"31 1","pages":"45-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415767","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59811486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1999.10415763
J. Dower
{"title":"A message from the Showa emperor","authors":"J. Dower","doi":"10.1080/14672715.1999.10415763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415763","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84339,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars","volume":"6 1","pages":"19-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415763","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59811539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1999.10415769
P. Chattopadhyay
{"title":"Women's labor under capitalism and Marx","authors":"P. Chattopadhyay","doi":"10.1080/14672715.1999.10415769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415769","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84339,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars","volume":"31 1","pages":"67-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415769","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59811644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1999-12-01DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1999.10415770
Norma Field
{"title":"Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour, and Activism, 1900-1937, by Vera C. Mackie/Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patriarchal Fantasies, by Hélène Bowen Raddeker","authors":"Norma Field","doi":"10.1080/14672715.1999.10415770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84339,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars","volume":"31 1","pages":"77-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14672715.1999.10415770","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59811659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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