{"id":515,"date":"2003-10-02T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2003-10-02T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T03:36:00","slug":"515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE ROAD YET TO BE TAKEN: TEN POSSIBLE FUTURES FOR INDONESIA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/publications\/MR\/MR1344\/MR1344.ch7.pdf\">RAND study<\/a> outlines possible scenarios for the post-Suharto evolution of the world&#8217;s largest Muslim nation.<\/p>\n<p>While I root for the success of liberal democracy and market capitalism everywhere, the track record for multicultural polyglot states, outside of the Switzerland, is not a terribly impressive one. If the Czechs and Slovaks cannot hold a nation the size of<br \/>\n<br \/>a midwestern state together I have my doubts about the durability of Indonesia, India, Nigeria, the Congo and a collection of already failed states like Liberia, Somalia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ROAD YET TO BE TAKEN: TEN POSSIBLE FUTURES FOR INDONESIA This excerpt from a RAND study outlines possible scenarios for the post-Suharto evolution of the world&#8217;s largest Muslim nation. While I root for the success of liberal democracy and market capitalism everywhere, the track record for multicultural polyglot states, outside of the Switzerland, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}