1st Edition

Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia Imagined Evil

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

In Indonesia, the events of 1st October 1965 were followed by a campaign to annihilate the Communist Party and its alleged sympathisers. It resulted in the murder of an estimate of one million people – a genocide that counts as one of the largest mass murders after WWII – and the incarceration of another million, many of them for a decade or more without any legal process. This drive was... Read more

Preface 1.Propaganda in Indonesian history: introducing the theme 2. Unanswered questions about the G30S Movement 3. The International People’s Tribunal on the 1965 Crimes against humanity in Indonesia 4. The nation betrayed: history revisited  5. Rural unrest, religion, culture and the Pancasila 6. Women’s degradation and homophobia; two sexual moral panics 7. The complicity of the middle classes 8. Transitional justice and memory work 9. New Style Communism?

Biography

Saskia E. Wieringa is a professor at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the Chair of the Foundation IPT 1965 which established a People’s Tribunal on the post-1965 crimes against humanity perpetrated in Indonesia.





Nursyahbani Katjasungkana is a human rights lawyer and the national coordinator for the Indonesian Women's Association of Justice. She was previously the Director of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute, Indonesia and is presently the chair of its Board, She is the general coordinator of the Foundation IPT 1965.