Connie Rahakundini Bakrie, who spoke at two Schiller Institute Conferences in 2013 and 2014 (on the Oasis Plan and on a new world order), is a leading expert in maritime and aerospace development from Indonesia, now a professor at Russia’s St. Petersburg State University in international relations. She is a member of the Valdai Club. She was interviewed by Glenn Diesen on Oct. 6.
Bakrie said that Indonesia had been a major power before colonization, and that Sukarno, who led the revolution that won independence after World War II and was President before he was brought down by a U.S.-U.K.-Australia color revolution in 1967, had built up Indonesia’s military (with Russian support) to the point that it was known as the leading military force in the Global South at that time.
