ABSTRACT
As an authoritarian ruler whose reign stretched for over three decades, the Suharto period represents perhaps the most complex, difficult, and sincerely emotive timeframe to reflect upon in Indonesia today. The violence is also the scenario that came to partially define the identity of the country during Suharto's Orde Baru. One of the leaders of the military forces was Suharto, certainly not the most influential or well-known military commander who defeated Untung and his allies. Suharto was an instructor at the army officer graduate school in Bandung, as well as the general responsible for the "Army's Strategic Reserve". This chapter discusses the foreign economic policies of the New Order regime within the state at the level of domestic political and economic reform and then move to the international political economy. Islam was then one component of the political culture of the New Order state to bolster legitimacy for its policies within Indonesian society.
