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Max Lane ‘Re-organisation’ of Mass Politics and the Weakened National Revolution in the Era of Neo-Liberal Globalisation Working Paper No. 102 January 2004 The views presented in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Asia Research Centre or Murdoch University. © Copyright: No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission. National Library of Australia. ISBN: 0-86905-8355 ISSN: 1037-4612 Neo-liberal globalisation is being enforced in Indonesia at a specific conjuncture in its national history. Thirty-eight years of authoritarian regime has severely weakened representative institutions and mechanisms, including political parties of all ideological orientations, and suppressed active ideological life. These institutions and mechanisms had been the primary instruments of the Indonesian national revolution and nation construction process that unfolded between the beginning of the twentieth century and 1965. The destruction of these organisations and the maintenance of a so-called corporatist state structure constituted a profound disorganisation of Indonesian society.1 THE DISORGANISATION OF SOCIETY DURING THE PERIOD OF COUNTER- REVOLUTION, 1965-1998 In the discussion of the New Order state in Indonesia, one widely accepted description, especially among Indonesianists, is that of a ‘corporatist state’. The reference points for this description are both ideological and political. Key ideologues of the New Order justified the nature of its rule with an ideology that did sometimes borrow from political ideas associated with Javanese aristocratic political thinking, Japanese