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Carrying this theme significantly further, the September 1969 field report implies strongly that a host of other groups, foremost among them the DAS, has leapt in to fill the position of influence vacated by the IMF. It says in part that "among the diverse programs of assistance to [the planning agency]... a natural division of labor has emerged, and the various efforts have so far exhibited a high degree of complementarity. The DAS concentrates on broad policy; the [World Bank] team on sector programs and project development; the Tinbergen [Dutch] team on three specific subject matters-regional-planning, manpower...
...SHORT, the DAS representatives in Djakarta, far from being "students of the development process," have probably played an important role in helping to shape the present Indonesian economy. And as the foregoing material suggests, the net effect of the DAS in that country cannot be considered outside the context of the Indonesian political situation. In late 1965, there occurred an armed uprising which the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) supported but in which the extent of their role is still highly unclear. That uprising was directed not against the rule of the Sukarno government, whose reaction to the event was ambiguous...
...DAS representatives, under the auspices of the Ford Foundation, had functioned briefly in Indonesia during the Sukarno period, but they worked in an academic training program alongside economists who disagreed with Sukarno and many of whom later ascended to key posts under Suharto's rule. The Harvard agency was then far from the helm of government policy-making and, if not directly antagonistic to Sukarno, did not occupy a position of influence or provide the government with support as it did under the succeeding leadership. The DAS withdrew from Indonesia in early 1965 as a result of intensified crisis conditions...
...DAS officials have publicly justified their presence in Indonesia on the simple grounds that the present economic structure of that country is a vast improvement over anything in the past. But the contents of confidential memoranda on their project in Indonesia demand that they shift their argument to other more complex grounds. The DAS should, in all honesty, state its case in political as well as economic terms. And it should provide the University with a far more complete description of its activities than it has offered...
...perfectly possible for their names only to be deleted; the availability of the reports should be for purposes of policy appraisal, not for those of needless vilification. It is essential to recognize, however, that the official activities of prominent individuals and organizations, such as General Suharto or the DAS, are not a matter of private privilege but legitimate public concern...