Harvard University Asia Center organized a discussion series entitled Southeast Asia Lecture Series on Tuesday, September 28th, 2021, Farabi Fakih, one of the history lecturers at Gadjah Mada University, was the speaker of the discussion. The topic of the discussion was The Rise of Managerial State in Post-Independence Indonesia (1950-1965). The discussion started at 10.00 EST or 21.00 WIB on the Zoom platform and was attended by 56 participants. Farabi presented a summary of his book entitled Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period: The Foundation of the New Order State (1950-1965). More specifically, Fakih talked the authoritarian modernization under Soekarno’s rule.