Political challenges to sustainable development in Indonesia

Abstract

This study assesses both the framework and the practice of development in Indonesia during New Order era from a humanist perspective of sustainable development. The framework of Indonesia's development is labeled as an authoritarian-developmental state. To guarantee the success of an economic-growth-oriented development, the state formed into an authoritarian structure which has since maintained. Sustainable development has been adopted as a sub-ordinate of authoritarian developmental framework.

Four approaches to sustainable development -- ecocentric reformism, ecocentric radical, technocentric reformism and technocentric radical -- are identified. The authoritarian-developmental state framework favors to the technocentric reformism which relies on the states managerial capability to implement sustainable development policies. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)