Johannes Baptista Soedjati Djiwandono (13 October 1933 – 9 January 2013) was an Indonesian political scientist who helped found the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in

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, one of Indonesia's leading think tanks.

Education

After attending a teachers' training college at his hometown of Yogyakarta, Djiwandono received a

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scholarship from the New Zealand government to study at the English Language Institute at Victoria University of Wellington. After studying for one year in Wellington, Djiwandono studied Russian and political science at the University of Otago in Dunedin in the

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. His return to Indonesia in January 1966 coincided with the tumultuous Transition to the New Order.''The Colombo Plan at 50'', pp.18-19. After completing his undergraduate studies in New Zealand in October 1965, Djiwandono later completed a MSc and PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics.

Career

One of his best known studies was ''Konfrontasi Revisited'', which explored Indonesian-Soviet relations during Indonesia's “Confrontation” campaigns against West New Guinea and Malaysia. Besides helping to establish the CSIS in 1971, he later served as a Senior fellow at the Research Institute for Democracy and Peace in Indonesia. In addition, Djiwandono served as a member of the

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and worked for the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. In addition, Djiwandono was a vocal human rights advocate, critic of

Suharto Suharto (; ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto ...

's New Order, and a regular contributor to Indonesia's leading English newspaper, '' The Jakarta Post''.

Family

Paradoxically, although he was very critical of Suharto, Djiwandono was indirectly related to the president. Soedjati Djiwandono's brother was former Bank Indonesia governor,

J. Soedradjad Djiwandono J. Soedradjad Djiwandono (EYD: Sudrajad Jiwandono, also written Sudrajad Djiwandono, Soedradjat Djiwandono and Sudrajat Djiwandono; born 7 August 1938) is an Indonesian economist who was Governor of Bank Indonesia, the nation's central bank, from ...

, who is married to Biantiningsih Djojohadikusumo. She is the elder sister of the well-known military and political figure Prabowo Subianto who was married to Suharto's daughter Titiek for a time from 1983 to 1998.

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