It is during the next era that history writes about the positive dynamics of the New Order development. From the end of the 1970s, we had been able to come closer to fulfilling our promise of independence with the quality of life improvements and economic prosperity for the people.
In the next decade until the mid 1990s, the world was witness to the contributions of Indonesia as one of the Tigers in Asia’s economic-political arena. However, it was also during the three decades of the New Order era that the urgency to develop open and democratic political system was lost. This oversight eventually led us to a severe economic and political crisis.