Abstract
In the first decade of the new millennium Indonesia confronts daunting challenges posed by simultaneous economic, political and environmental crises. To a large degree, these crises and the reform movement (reformasi) they catalysed were precipitated by the excesses of President Suharto's 'New Order' regime (1966-1998), in which centralized authoritarian rule and political patronage facilitated unfettered exploitation of the nation's natural wealth and large population for capital-intensive development...