Intelligence Agencies and Third World Militarization: A Case Study of Indonesia, 1966-1989
Table of Contents
Opening materials
- Abstract
- Detailed Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
Part I Theoretical overview
1 Introduction
- Prologue: Managing the “still unmastered past”
- The Indonesian intelligence state
- Militarisation, surveillance and terror in modern social theory
- The political economy of rentier-militarist state formation
- Outline of the thesis
- Note: research on intelligence
2 Militarization: global, regional and national
- The effects of militarization
- Militarization as a global phenomenon
- Difficulties with the classical notion of militarism
- “Militarism” and “militarization”
- Contemporary forms of militarisation: national, extended or imperial, and indirect
- Dimensions of national militarization
3 Surveillance and the totalitarian ambition
- Foucault and Giddens on surveillance
- Surveillance and the model of totalitarian rule
- Limitations of Giddens’ model
- Privileging the European model
- Dismissing the Japanese model
- Modelling the path to totalitarian rule
- The place of world-orders
- The Japanese model of emperor-system fascism
- Ruling bloc
- Passive mass-mobilization
- Domestic surveillance and limited terror
- Extreme terror in the periphery
- Conclusion: the relevance of the Japanese model
4 Intelligence and the rationalization of domination
- Intelligence agencies
- The functions of domestic intelligence agencies: surveillance, intervention, ideology and steering
- The isomorphic structure of national intelligence agencies
- Causes of isomorphic intelligence and security complexes
- Sources of variation
- The West German model
- The rationalisation of domination
5 The empire of pain: terror as a form of rule
- Varieties of modern terror
- Inducements to torture
- Crimen exceptum and the return of torture
- Terror and legitimacy
- Tempting the state: incommunicado detention
- The uncontrolled state
- The cultural construction of terror
- The corrosion of solidarity
- Semantic delirium
- Interruption: talking about torture
- Torture and language
- Rituals of state
- Living in the space of death
- The progress of the state: scientizing torture
- Terror and memory
Part II Indonesia: militarization, intelligence and terror
6 Oil, IGGI and US hegemony: the global pre-conditions for Indonesian rentier-militarisation
- Questions of method
- External pre-conditions of the Indonesian rentier-militarist state
- The structure of global power and peripheral state possibilities
- Global sources of legitimacy for a fortuitous statism
- The South Korean response: mercantilist militarism
- Conclusion: transformations of the rentier-state and the mercantilist state
7 The hardening shell – Indonesian military revenues and force structures
- Military revenues and expenditures:
- Domestic budgets
- Pertamina and other state enterprises
- Military enterprises
- Levels of spending
- Foreign military aid
- Force structure: plans, personnel and weapons systems
- The transformation:
- Force structure, 1968
- Force structures 1968-1974
- Renstra I and the Timor expansion, 1974/75 – 1978/79
- Renstra II, 1978/79 – 1983/84
- Renstra III and the Moerdani Years, 1984/85 – 1988/89
- Force structure, 1987
8 The structure of the Indonesian intelligence apparatus: Part I – military organisations
- Kopkamtib
- Legal status
- Aims and functions
- Powers and scope
- Structure and procedures
- KOPKAMTIB at war: Irian Jaya and East Timor
- Controlling labour: structures
- Operasi Tertib – Operation Order
- After Kopkamtib: Bakorstanas
- Strategic Intelligence Agency [Bais ABRI]
- Origins
- Structure
- Foreign activities
- Political activities
- Army Intelligence: from Aspam to Babinsa
9 The structure of the Indonesian intelligence apparatus: Part II – civilian organisations
- State Intelligence Coordinating Board [Bakin]:
- History
- Structure and personnel
- Political role
- Opsus
- A private intelligence empire?
- Opsus personnel: thugs, spooks and “political technocrats”
- Opsus financial base
- National Police Intelligence
- Department of Home Affairs, Directorate-General of Social and Political Affairs
- Attorney-General’s Department, Intelligence Affairs
- State Crytography Institute
10 Intelligence coordination and the coherence of the state
- Local intelligence coordination
- Central intelligence coordination
- Organizational rivalries
11 Theory and practice in intelligence and control operations: (1) Terror
- The SESKOAD textbook models:
- Intelligence operations
- Territorial operations
- Social and political operations
- Threat levels and the framework of intervention: Regional Security Management
- Intelligence and security operations in practice:
- Surveillance and terror in East Timor intelligence and security operations
- Irian Jaya intelligence and security operations
- Extra-judicial killings of alleged criminals, 1983-84
- Provocation and terror against students, Timorese and Muslims
12 Theory and practice in intelligence and control operations: (2) surveillance
- Controlling labour
- First corporatist attempts
- Pancasila industrial relations
- Organisational tightening
- Intelligence and intervention
- Sifting the dust of history: mass surveillance techniques:
- East Timor: surveillance in war
- Penetrating labour
- Social science against Islam
- Communists: fantasies of science
Part III Conclusion
13 Conclusion
- Indonesia: a totalitarian ambition in a rentier militarist state
- Intelligence regimes
- The end of rentier-militarisation?
- Intelligence and society
- The military and modernity, again
Appendices
- Indonesian intelligence and security figures, 1966-1989: biographical notes
- Intelligence career paths
- Notes on the history of Indonesian intelligence organizations, 1945-1965
- Seskoad recommended model evaluation of territorial aims
- Seskoad recommended model of territorial potential analysis
- Seskoad recommended model of territorial development analysis
- Kopkamtib questionnaire for oil industry workers
- Kopkamtib questionnaire for factory workers
- Indonesian military budget, 1978: detailed breakdown
- Assistants for Intelligence to the Central Army Command, Department of Defence and Security Joint Command or ABRI Chief of the General Staff, 1965 -1985
- First Assistant (Intelligence/Security) to the Army Chief of Staff, 1967-1985
- The Armed Forces Leadership and Social Communication
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