20 Years Since Soeharto: The State of Democractic Reform

In 1997 Thailand caught a cold and Indonesia burned with a fever that led to the 1998 fall of President Suharto's authoritarian regime, the imposition of IMF economic mandates, and the rebirth of Indonesia's democracy. Writer Kevin O'Rourke reported extensively on the heady days of the reform movement, authoring a definitive account of the period.