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The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore . By Michael Hill and Lian Kwen Fee. London: Routledge, 1995, x, 285 pp. $14.99 (paper).

The book provides another valuable service as a comprehensive literature survey of significant research on the Indonesian economy since 1966. The conclusions of many major studies are summarized within the body of the text, and the footnotes combined with the lengthy bibliography will guide the interested reader to any relevant further reading. For the prospective researcher, Hill also identifies many gaps in the literature, although these gaps are frequently an indication of the absence of necessary data or the political sensitivity of the topic, and hence may not be easily filled. To summarize this vast array of information, one need only note that Indonesia's overall rapid growth in gross domestic product since 1966 is matched by a generally positive performance in major indicators from rice production to the more recent surge in labor-intensive manufactured exports, including measures of poverty incidence and other social welfare indicators. To what does Indonesia owe this success? Unlike many studies of East Asian "miracle economies," Hill does not belabor this question. He notes simply in the introductory chapter that the recipe for success is no secret: "The government provided a stable economic and political environment, property rights were respected, Indonesia re-entered the international community, prices—especially the exchange rate—reflected conditions of demand and supply, and the provision of public goods . . . began to increase substantially" (p. 9). Even during the oil boom decade of the 1970s, these basics were adhered to, minimizing the cost of ambitious and less efficient government-led investment.