Running Amok: When news deadlines, family and foreign affairs collide
Hodder, $32.95 pb, 308 pp, 0733620423
Urgent learning
Mark Bowling was the ABC’s man in Indonesia from 1998 until 2002, and this book is an excellent account of the period of his posting. It covers a turbulent time in Indonesian life from May 1998, the end of the thirty-year Suharto regime, until May 2002, when the newly fledged nation of East Timor spread its wings. An epilogue adds his involvement in reporting on the most significant event in Indonesian affairs for Australians, the Bali bombing on 13 October 2002.
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Running Amok: When news deadlines, family and foreign affairs collide
by Mark Bowling
Hodder, $32.95 pb, 308 pp, 0733620423
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