Harold Crouch

Harold Arthur Crouch (18 July 1940 – 27 August 2023) was an Australian political science scholar and author.

William Macmahon Ball, the "foremost pioneer of Australia's relations with the newly independent countries of Asia", led the department at that time.

[1][5] In 1991 he joined the Australian National University's Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies in Canberra.

This led to the accumulation of information for his 2010 book, Political Reform in Indonesia after Soeharto published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.

[6] In the preface of their book Soeharto's New Order and its Legacy: Essays in honour of Harold Crouch, the authors write: Professor Crouch has been one of the pre-eminent scholars of Indonesian politics during the New Order period, and he wrote the definitive book on that regime's rise to power.