Bridges to New Business

This monograph offers the first comprehensive history of the decolonization of the Indonesian economy, a process with a different momentum and timing from the achievement of political independence. It traces the origins of economic decolonization to the late-colonial period, covers developments during the Japanese occupation and the Indonesian Revolution as well as continued operations by Dutch enterprises in Indonesia during the 1950s. The account culminates with the takeover and nationalization of Dutch private enterprises in the late 1950s

Colonialism · Decolonization · Economics · Economy · Indonesian · Political science · Politics · Asian Studies and History · Law · 1945-1966 · 20th century · East asia · Economic conditions · Economic policy · History · Indonesia · Industrial policy · Japanese occupation, 1942-1945