Table of Contents; 1. INDONESIA'S NEW PROMINENCE IN THE WORLD by Anthony Reid; 2. INDONESIA IN THE NEW WORLD BALANCE by Ross Garnaut; 3. INDONESIA'S ROLE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY: SITTING ON THE FENCE by M. Chatib Basri; 4. IS INDONESIA RISING? IT DEPENDS by Donald K. Emmerson; 5. DOMESTIC POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL POSTURE: CONSTRAINTS AND POSSIBILITIES by Rizal Sukma; 6. CAN INDONESIA LEAD ON CLIMATE CHANGE? by Frank Jotzo; 7. INDONESIAN MUSLIMS AND THEIR PLACE IN THE LARGER WORLD OF ISLAM by Martin van Bruinessen
8. INDONESIA'S QUIET SPRINGTIME: KNOWLEDGE, POLICY AND REFORM by Scott Guggenheim9. PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY AND LEGITIMACY FOR INDONESIA'S PLACE IN THE WORLD by R.E. Elson; INDEX
Summary
There are reasons for thinking that this is at last Indonesia's moment on the world stage. Having successfully negotiated its difficult transition to democracy after 1998, Indonesia has held three popular elections with a low level of violence by the standards of southern Asia. Recently its economic growth rate has been high (above 6 per cent a year) and rising, where China's has been dropping and the developed world has been in crisis. Indonesia's admission in 2009 to the G20 club of the world's most influential states seemed to confirm a status implied by its size, as the world's fourth-larg
