RSIS Monograph No. 8

The monograph combines political-historical analysis within a journalistic narrative style to tell the story of the crisis the Indonesian military went through after the demise of the New Order of President Soeharto in 1998. Of the three pillars of the New Order — the government bureaucracy, the ruling Functional Groups (GOLKAR) party and the military or TNI—it was the TNI that received the brunt of the reform movements (reformasi) that followed the end of President Soeharto’s rule. The reformasi forced the TNI to eventually abandon its almost sacred doctrine of “dual function” (dwifungsi) that justified its participation in politics during the New Order.