Minding their business: new order military doctrine and its legacy in post-Suharto Indonesia.

© 2014 Madeleine Cate Lloyd“It’s impossible that there are people who would die only for money. No soldier would die for that reason. The army is willing to die for loyalty to the state.” - Prabowo Subianto Prabowo Subianto, a candidate in the 2014 Indonesian election, previously a three-star general in the Indonesian army, a successful businessman, and a former son-in-law of President Suharto made this statement in response to bring confronted by a reporter about rumours of his involvement in corruption and collusion in the army. Here, Prabowo articulates the view that army men are loyal nationalists, denying both the army’s economic interests and its strong historical links to the business world. The military’s role in business is linked to the dominant socio-political role of the military under Suharto’s New Order regime (1966-1998), which was legitimized by the doctrines of dwi fungsi ABRI (the Dual Function of the Indonesian Armed Forces) and kekaryaan ABRI (the Civic Action of the Indonesian Armed Forces). (From Introduction