A Prince in a Republic

Hamengku Buwono IX, the late Sultan of Yogyakarta Special Province, is revered by Indonesians as one of the great founders of the modern Indonesian state. He leaves a positive but in some ways ambiguous legacy in political terms. His most conspicuous achievement was the survival of hereditary Yogyakartan kingship, and he provided rare stability and continuity in IndonesiaÛªs highly fractured modern history. Under the New Order, Hamengku Buwono also helped to launch the Indonesian economy on a mu