... these trends by examining the economic and political benefits that accrue to domestic business actors when commodity prices soar. The book shows how the centrality of patronage to Indonesia's democratic political economy, and the growing importance of mining and palm oil as drivers of export earnings, enhanced...

... democratic political economy was marked by a new and more intense overlap between private sector mining interests and public office. The chapter then looks into how the domestic private sector played a critical role in shaping nationalist trajectories in Indonesia. It cites that a business-driven form...