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...DAS first sent advisors to Indonesia at the request of the Soekarno Government in 1963. The advisors continued their work until early 1965 when the Ford Foundation, the financial sponsor, decided that it was becoming too difficult and dangerous to have foreigners live in Indonesia. This decision came after the houses of British citizens had been burned (one of the DAS advisors happened to be from the UK). President Soekarno called in the Ford Foundation representative and strongly urged that the Foundation's work, including the DAS project, continue. In fact, the project did continue throughout the rest...
From early 1965 to 1968 the DAS had no advisors in Indonesia. More than two years after the failure of the Communist attempt to seize power the first DAS advisor again arrived in Indonesia. The economists who were one of the influential groups in forming the Goverment's economic policies (groups of senior military officers are also influential) had asked the DAS for a small (4-5 economists) advisory group. Since the economists, unlike the Soekarno regime, were fully committed to economic development and a fight against inflation which had particularly affected landless laborers and the urban poor, the DAS...
Many of the stories on the DAS seem to be based on a greatly exaggerated notion of the role of DAS advisors. In Indonesia, for instance, they work with a group of economists who are first-rate professionals, with strong views of their own. Many took great risks, including imprisonment and death, in retaining these views. They may turn to their staff and foreign advisors for help on a broad range of technical problems, from the organization of a works program, to the analysis of an investment proposal, or the drafting of a document, but anyone who has ever seen...
...anyone in the Indonesian or any other government), it included my impression of the people, the economy and the political situation, and speculated on future developments. I am puzzled by the relevance of my personal report on the political and economic situation in Indonesia to the issue of the DAS political "support" for the regime. A reporter is usually not necessarily either a supporter or opponent...
...advisory services of the DAS are wholly independent of the U.S. government. The DAS provides its services only on invitation from a host country, and serves the interests of each client country as defined by its own political process. Advisory services have been financed mainly by the Ford Foundation, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the host countries. About half of the advisors are non-Americans. A University wide committee, which reviewed the DAS in 1968, concluded that the DAS was a "proper function for a university," and for Harvard in particular, and that the professional reputation...