Notowidigdo Moekato (1 results)
Published by Ministry of Information, Republic of Indonesia, [Jakarta], 1959
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
Contact seller5-star seller8" x 5½" (20.3 x 14.3 cm), pp. 16; a very good copy in stapled wrappers. Special issue no. 43 in the publisher's Kementerian Penerangan series An English-language Indonesian Ministry of Information pamphlet by Moekarto Notowidigdo, former foreign minister and Indonesian ambassador to the United States. This speech was delivered…in Philadelphia but was published in Jakarta in 1959, at the beginning of Sukarno's Guided Democracy period. The work discusses the competing cultural, political and ideological influences shaping post-independence Indonesia. A useful Cold War-era statement of Indonesian political self-presentation for foreign readers.
