Good governance is that which performs its tasks and meets its challenges effectively, efficiently, and in a manner that contributes to the legitimacy of authority (the general approval of the people). Legitimacy can be demonstrated in a number of ways, both active and passive. It does not require free and fair elections. Suharto’s Indonesia at mid-course is a case in point. In terms of real social and economic progress, it had what Liddle called “developmental legitimacy” rather than “democratic legitimacy,” what I have elsewhere called “instrumental legitimacy.”