Buku ini adalah bagian pertama dari sebuah buku yang diterbitkan oleh Centre for Political Studies-Soegeng Sarjadi Syndicated ini membahas potensi ekonomi daerah di tiga bagian wilayah Indonesia, yaitu Indonesia Bagian Barat, Tengah dan Timur.
The book argues that political commitment, bureaucratic performance and sound policies - key attributes of good governance - made the difference between Malaysia and the other two countries.
The original volume grew out of a seminar taugh by Mitchell Sellingson at the University of Arizona. In preparing for the seminar while on sabbatical at the University of Essex in England, he recognize that there was a great deal of research addressing the two questions posed above, and he attempted to organized that material for his students. In addition, the most recent theoretical and empiri…