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knowledge and organizational capacities to realize the potential of modern technologyin the major sectors of the economy. So it seems that the Indonesian education systemhad better prepared Indonesian society for rapid development in both the technicaleconomic and political economic spheres.Mobutu was also aware of the importance of restoring economic stability for politicalsurvival in his early years and, like Suharto, squandered huge amounts of money onmegalomaniac projects which never offered the envisaged return (dams, steel mills,aircraft industry). The key distinction is that Suharto operated in a context of welltraineduniversity graduates, with whom he shared part of his power throughconsultation.Add paragraphs on Mobutu’s economic policies7. ConclusionYet to be written.References1934. Statistisch Jaaroverzicht van Nederlands-Indië over het jaar 1933. Landsdrukkerij, BataviaBirdsall, N., Ross, D., Sabot, R., 1997. Education, Growth and Inequality. in: Birdsall, N. andJasperson, F. (Eds.), Pathways to Growth. Comparing East Asia and Latin America, Inter-American Development Bank, Johns Hopkins University Press, Washington D.C., pp: 93-130.Boone, A. T., 1996. Onderwijs en opvoeding in de Nederlandse koloniën 1595-1975. PedagogischTijdschrift 21, 87-92.Booth, A., 1998. Indonesian Economic Development in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: AHistory of Missed Opportunities. Macmillan LondonBrugmans, I. J., 1938. Geschiedenis van het Onderwijs in Nederlandsch-Indië. Wolters, GroningenClemens, M. A., 2004. The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historicalperspective. Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 37Coleman, J. S., 1954. Nationalism in Tropical Africa. The American Political Science Review 48,404-426.Depaepe, M., van Rompaey, L., 1995. In het teken van de bevoogding. De educatieve actie inBelgisch-Kongo (1908-1960). Garant, LeuvenDick, H., Houben, V. J. H., Lindblad, J. T., Thee, K. W., 2002. The Emergence of a NationalEconomy. An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000. KILTV Press, Leiden17