Comrade:AngTeh

Nusantaran Chinese editor

Currently Reading:

1. 'The Long Transition Towards Socialism and The End of Capitalism' - Torkil Lauesen
2. 'The Unknown Cultural Revolution' - Dongping Han
3. 'America Against America' - Wang Huning
4. 'Anti Duhring' - Friedrich Engels
5. 'The Jakarta Method' - Vincent Bevins
6. 'Revolusi' - David Van Reybrouck

Additional Things To Explore for Adding onto Prolewiki:

1. Dutch Colonialism of Indonesia
2. Republic of Indonesia
3. Baba-Nyonya and Chinese Southeast Asian Community
4. People's Republic of China (Great Leap Forward, Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Reform and Opening Up)
5. British Colonialism of Malaya
6. Republic of Singapore
7. Federation of Malaysia
8. Brunei Darussalam
9. Republic of Philippines
10. Chin Peng
11. Liu Shaoqi
12. Xi Jinping

Indonesia

Old Order Era (1945-1967)

In 1960, Sukarno's Government passed the Agrarian Law and the Basic Profit-Sharing Law. The Agrarian Law was passed to abolish Indonesia's Dutch Colonial land system and establish unified national sovereignty over land, including water and natural resources, while laying the legal foundation for land reform.

Comprador Capitalism

After overthrowing Sukarno's Government, Suharto’s New Order Government halted two policies enacted in 1960 such as the Agrarian Law and the Basic Profit-Sharing Law while enacting the Foreign Investment Law (Number 1 of 1967) and the Domestic Investment Law (Number 6 of 1968).

The Foreign Investment Law reopened strategic assets previously nationalized under Sukarno such as mining, oil and gas, plantations, forestry and finance to unrestricted foreign capital. This paved the way for foreign capitalists to regain control over Indonesia's natural resources and surplus, reversing economic sovereignty and entrenching extractive dependency.

The New Order Government granted long term concessions of Indonesian land for foreign capitalists to plunder natural resources from the local environment

such as the establishment of Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold in 1967 on West Papua. Between 1969-1974, nearly 11 million hectares of logging concessions were granted to large foreign capitalist corporations primarily in Sumatra and Kalimantan such as US timber giants Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific. Additionally, they were also allowed to siphon profits generated from their firms in Indonesia out of the country to their core bases in large numbers.

Sources:

1. pg 103-127 'Critiques of Jokowi's Political Economy of Agrarian Reform and Social Forestry as Intruments of Universal Agrarian Reform' -Roy Murtadho https://indoprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Jurnal-IP-2022-11-14-184652_compressed.pdf
2. https://monthlyreview.org/articles/mining-capital-and-the-indonesian-state/