![]() | Out of Business and On Budget: The Challenge of Military Financing in Indonesia Subjects: National security -- Economic aspects -- Indonesia; Indonesia -- Economic policy; National security -- Indonesia; Indonesia -- Military policy; Indonesia. Tentara Nasional; A Brookings Institution Press and U.S.-Indonesian Society publication Indonesia has the fourth largest total population and the largest Muslim population of any nation on earth. Indonesia's transition to democracy, thus, is critically important at a time when the West's relationship with much of the Muslim world is problematic and the push for greater democracy worldwide is a U.S. priority. A major impediment to democracy in Indonesia and several other nations is a military establishment that is not financially accountable to civilian leaders and thus nearly impossible to control. This new study examines what is necessary to bring the Indonesian military "on-budget"--what policies are required, what Indonesia can learn from other nations (e.g. China, Turkey),--and what a realistic timetable looks like. Lex Rieffel is a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and Development Program. He is author of Restructuring Sovereign Debt: The Case for Ad Hoc Machinery (Brookings, 2003). Jaleswari Pramodhawardani is a researcher at the National Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in Indonesia and a member of the Advisory Board of the Indonesian Institute. She has been publishing and speaking on military reform and economics since 1999. |
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