Indonesia’s Threefold Crisis

A review of To Catch a Traitor in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison, by Francis T. Seow.

Since its transition to democracy barely a decade ago, Indonesia has begun projecting its newly democratic values across international borders. So far, however, its efforts have been largely rhetorical.

China’s government looks to Singapore, the only country in the region to modernize without liberalizing, in hopes of finding the key to combining authoritarian rule with economic progress and “good…