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Today's date:

Summer 1998

• POST GLOBALIZATION

• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007

• MADE IN CHINA

• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY

• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA

• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK

• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD

• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY

• PLANET OF SLUMS

• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY
OF FEAR

• THE OTHER

• POST-NATIONAL
LITERATURE

• COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE
CHANGE?

• THE RISE AND FALL OF
AMERICA'S SOFT POWER

• THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION

• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY

• SCULPTURE AND THE
NEW SCIENCE

• BIOTECH AND THE
NEW BABEL

• WAR THROUGH THE
BACK DOOR

• ANTIAMERICANISM

• THE RISING SOFT POWER
OF CHINA & INDIA

• THE BUSH DOCTRINE

• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE
WORLD

• AMERICA'S MIGHT

• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

• ANTIGLOBOS

• HOT PEACE

• MODUS VIVENDI

• LOOKING NORTH

• FROM WELL HAVING TO
WELL BEING

• POST-HUMAN HISTORY

• GLOBAPHOBIA

• THE GLOBAL MIND

• AFTER KOSOVO

• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO

• DEGLOBALIZATION?

• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

• BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND
[BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA

• BEYOND CAPITALISM

• ASIAN CRISIS

• CHINA: THE ASIAN
RENAISSANCE

• SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL

• ECLIPSE OF THE BIG
PICTURE

• AFTER THE END OF
HISTORY

• THE EAST IS RED AGAIN

• HALF-A-HEGEMON

• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM

• HEIMAT

• Fall 1987

• Winter 1987

• Spring 1986

• Fall-Winter '84-'85

• Spring 1984

Echoes of the Javanese Dictator

Pramoedya Ananta Toer has been called Indonesia's greatest writer by the New York Times. He is best known for the Burn Quartet, a narrative of the birth of Indonesian nationalism, composed when he was imprisoned on the island of Buru for 10 years by Suharto. His latest work in English, published by William Morrow in 1996, is The House of Glass, the final volume of the quartet.

Jakarta - The Javanese dictator, Suharto, was at last forced to step down, leaving Indonesia in the worst economic-monetary crisis since the proclamation of the republic. But the moment he left, I knew that no substantial change in the Indonesian political situation was to follow. His "new order" stands intact even without Suharto. All his supporters, and all the institutions he set up, remain firmly in place behind the visage of Mr. Habibie, the new president.

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