The 9th H.W. Arndt Memorial Lecture - Globalisation and its discontents: An Indonesian perspective

These are good times for Indonesia. Commodity prices are high, the economy is buoyant,  and the 2008-09 global financial crisis had little impact. The economic and democratic  reforms instituted in the wake of the Asian financial crisis have been bedded down  successfully. The country is increasingly important on the regional and global stage,  through ASEAN, the G20 and many other fora. Yet the skeptics in the country’s influential  political, business and NGO communities towards an open, liberal international economic  order are as vocal and vociferous as ever. This Lecture, by the country’s Minister of Trade  and one of its pre-eminent authorities on the subject, canvasses these and related issues.