“The coup has failed! General Suharto killed!”
Newspaper headlines in Sarawak in late autumn 1965 were full of nothing but reactions to the failure of the October 1965 coup against the Indonesian government. With the coup put down, news turned to monitoring every new wave of Indonesian purges.
Reports have been streaming in across the land border, talking of disappearances, night-time executions, surprise replacements of command, and other such terrors. With no formal information out of the now-renamed Jakarta except for official reports of military command transfers, nobody in Sarawak is sure of what to think.
And what of the murkily-defined “Guided Democracy” which Indonesian publications are declaring to be the leading philosophy of the Republic? Wait, why is the Republic issuing all of these documents in the first place? What happened to the States of Borneo, of West New Guinea, of the Great East? For months now the federal system of Indonesia appears to be dormant. Has the Republic annexed the other States (a clear violation of treaties signed with the Dutch), or have the other states “dissolved themselves into the Republic”?
Is Guided Democracy “simply a unique version of democratic ideals, designed for Indonesia's own circumstances” as the Sarawak People's Party has said, or is it “an ideology of domination, of corruption, of colonisation of all Nusantara by the Muslim Javanese” as the Maharajah Loyalty Association claims? Is it “a recipe for economic disaster” as the Sarawak Chamber of Commerce has said, citing the recent failure of the guldenisation reforms in Sarawak as Indonesian systems appear to have severed all links to the Dutch currency? Is it “a devious plot to suppress Islam, and destroy the soul of the people” as several high-profile imams have declared in mosques across the nation?
Migrants from Indonesia, mostly non-Muslims, have been trickling across into Sarawak speaking of torture, of suppression of the press, of indoctrination in schools, of state-sanctioned ethnic cleansing. But the papers from Batavia (or is it Jakarta now?) speak of electrification, fresh and clean water, new houses, inter-ethnic harmony (but the Chinese are suspiciously absent?) and of a new, independent policy. What is the truth?
And did Indonesia support the Brunei Uprising, that brief day of unrest in Brunei which British forces put down with ease, which demonstra
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B O T T O M T E X T
Guided democracy, also called managed democracy,[1] is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto autocracy. Such governments are legitimized by elections that are free and fair, but do not change the state's policies, motives, and goals.[2]
In other words, the government controls elections so that the people can exercise all their rights without truly changing public policy. While they follow basic democratic principles, there can be major deviations towards authoritarianism. Under managed democracy, the state's continuous use of propaganda techniques prevents the electorate from having a significant impact on policy.[3]
The concept of a "guided democracy" was developed in the 20th century by Walter Lippmann in his seminal work Public Opinion (1922) and by Edward Bernays in his work Crystallizing Public Opinion.
