The Indonesian Genocide of 1965

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. New Interpretations of the Causes, Dynamics and Legacies of the Indonesian Genocide

   • Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin, Annie Pohlman

   Pages 1-26

3. A Case for Genocide: Indonesia, 1965–1966

   • Jess Melvin, Annie Pohlman

   Pages 27-47

4. New Empirical Research and Interpretations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. The Road to Genocide: Indonesian Military Planning to Seize State Power Prior to 1 October 1965

      • Jess Melvin

      Pages 51-69

   3. The 30 September Movement and Its Aftermath in Bali, October–December 1965

      • Akihisa Matsuno

      Pages 71-88

   4. The Connection Between Land Reform and the 1965–1966 Tragedy in Bali

      • Roro Sawita

      Pages 89-113

   5. Two Women’s Testimonies of Sexual Violence During the 1965–1966 Indonesian Massacres

      • Annie Pohlman

      Pages 115-132

   6. A Rite of De-modernization: The Anti-Communist Purge in Surabaya

      • Robbie Peters

      Pages 133-156

   7. Counterrevolution in a Revolutionary Campus: How Did the “1965 Event” Affect an Indonesian Public University?

      • Abdul Wahid

      Pages 157-178

   8. The 1965–1966 Violence, Religious Conversions and the Changing Relationship Between the Left and Indonesia’s Churches

      • Vannessa Hearman

      Pages 179-195

5. Legacies of the Indonesian Genocide

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. The Efficacy of “Dangerous” Knowledge: “Children of Victims” in Indonesia After 1965

      • Andrew Conroe

      Pages 199-214

   3. Remembering Suffering and Survival: Sites of Memory on Buru

      • Ken Setiawan

      Pages 215-233

   4. Heads from the North: Transcultural Memorialization of the 1965 Indonesian Killings at the National Gallery of Australia

      • Katharine McGregor

      Pages 235-252Open Access

   5. The History of Loss and the Loss of History: Papermoon Puppet Theatre Examines the Legacies of the 1965 Violence in Indonesia

      • Marianna Lis

      Pages 253-268

   6. Violent Histories and Embodied Memories: Affectivity of “The Act of Killing” and “The Look of Silence”

      • Ana Dragojlovic

      Pages 269-285

   7. Zombie Anti-Communism? Democratization and the Demons of Suharto-Era Politics in Contemporary Indonesia

      • Stephen Miller

      Pages 287-310

   8. After 1965: Legal Matters for Justice?

      • Nukila Evanty, Annie Pohlman

      Pages 311-334

   9. Working from the Margins: Initiatives for Truth and Reconciliation for Victims of the 1965 Mass Violence in Solo and Palu

      • Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem

      Pages 335-356

This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath. Fifty years on from one the largest genocides of the twentieth century, they probe the causes, dynamics and legacies of this violence through the use of a wide range of sources and different scholarly lenses.
 
 Chapter 12 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

• military coup
• Indonesian Communist Party
• General Suharto
• New Order regime
• Genocide Convention

“The book is a valuable tool to approach some significant aspects of what happened in 1965/1966 and especially its aftermath. The book shows that an approach to what happened could and should be multi-layered.” (Fritz Schulze, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, May09, 2019)

• University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  Katharine McGregor

• Yale University, New Haven, USA

  Jess Melvin

• University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

  Annie Pohlman

Katharine McGregor is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian History and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
 
Jess Melvin is Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies and Post-Doctoral Associate in Genocide Studies at Yale University, USA.
 
Annie Pohlman is Lecturer in Indonesian at the University of Queensland, Australia.
 

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