Peranan Militer Thailand Dalam Mengembalikan Pemerintahan Sipil Pasca Kudeta Tahun 2006

FIRSTIANA, Firstiana, Yahya Muhaimin

2011 | Skripsi | Ilmu Hubungan Internasional

This thesis analyzes the military coup that occurred in Thailand on September 19, 2006. It considers what led to this coup as having made substantial progress in consolidating its democracy. The main argument focuses on Thai’s military role that took over the Shinawatra’s government with coup. This was the first such military coup since 1991 and defied a belief held by many people (including this author) that such coups were a thing of the past, or at least extremely unlikely. The crucial point for understanding the participation by the ruling elites and army is to realize that 2006 is actually one point in a sequence going back to the coups of 1947, 1957, and 1976. In all these four events, the army and royalists moved in alliance to eject an elected government on grounds that the elected government was too weak, too strong, too corrupt, too disrespectful of the monarchy, or too something else. In 2006, the army had a special reason to participate. Thaksin had been trying to bring the army under his personal control. The old guard in the military and a lot of their upcoming subordinates resented this. The army also saw an opportunity to gain redemption for the army’s role in 1992, which had reduced their status so dramatically. The military had long wanted to regain some of its former prominence, and the opportunity to overthrow Thaksin gave them the chance.

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