About the Book
This book traces the often tumultuous history of U.S.-Indonesian relations as experienced by those who witnessed and shaped it. Gardner, himself a first-hand observer, draws on interviews, personal papers, and recently declassified documents to provide an intimate view of the aspirations, insights, and acts of courage that built the U.S.-Indonesian
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, The United States-Indonesia Society, First Encounters, Images of Colonialism, The Economics in Political Images, Battlefield Bonds, The Dilemma of a Concerned Bystander, Notes, Tests of Trust and Resolve, An Old Hand in a Changed Land, “Economic Cooperation” with an Embargo, The Illusion of Shared Sovereignty, Moving to a Larger Stage, Notes, Between Friends Who Are Enemies, The View from Kaliurang, Rough Political Seas Aboard the USS Renville, The Indonesian View from New York and Washington, The Conversion of Coert duBois, Bad Relations in the Good Offices Negotiations, Putting Indonesia on Americans' Map, Notes, Insurrection, Invasion, and Independence, Cochran in Command, Between Colonialism and Communism, Prelude to an Invasion, “Police Action” and the Security Council, From the Round Table to a Unitary State, Notes, Indonesian Unity and the Cold War, Economic Aid and Mutual Security, The Perils of Secret Diplomacy, Notes, The Dulles Brothers and Sukarno, Nonalignment, New Guinea, and National Unity, Steps Forward and Backward, Sukarno in the United States and China, Notes, A Costly “Covert” Operation, A New Indonesian Cabinet, a New U.S. Ambassador, and Their Difficult Bosses, Outer Island Dissidents and the CIA, U.S. Policy's Public Image, The Collapse of the Sumatran Rebellion, The Bombing of East Indonesia and a Change in U.S. Policy, Picking Up the Pieces, Notes, Kennedy, Johnson, and Sukarno's “Continuing Revolution'', Handling West Irian and Sukarno, Confronting Malaysia, Analyzing Sukarno, A Year of Living Dangerously for Anticommunists and Americans, Building Bonds at the Worst of Times, Notes, The Brink of Chaos, The PKI in the Cities and the Countryside, The PKI and the Army, A U.S. Reassessment, The Revolution's Crescendo, The September 30 Affair, Turmoil in a Power Vacuum, A Low Profile in an Uncertain Period, Killings in the Countryside, Showdown in Jakarta, Notes, Entering a New Order and a New Relationship, Establishing Economic Ties in a Shifting Political Environment, The Final Showdown, Biting the Economic Bullet, Institutionalizing the Low U.S. Profile: Multilateral Aid, Notes, Different Routes to Common Goals, Narrowing Differences in Worldviews, An Issue of Law-and Geography-and Security-and Economics, Profit and Problems from Trade and Investment, Human Rights: Communal and Individual, Internal Stability and Democratic Development, Internal Stability and Democratic Development, Notes, About the Book and Author, Index
About the Author :
Paul F. Gardner, a retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer, lived in Indonesia for nearly ten years. In a previous book, he compared Indonesia's and Melanesia's adaptation to the free market system.
