Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their
fellow nationals, neighbors, and kin at the height of an
anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This book investigates
the profound political consequences of these mass killings in
Indonesia upon public life, highlighting the historical
specificities of the violence and comparable incidents of identity
politics in more recent times.
Mixing theory with empirically based analysis, the book examines
how the specter of communism and the trauma experienced in the
latter half of the 1960s remain critical in understanding the
dynamics of terror, coercion, and consent today. Heryanto
challenges the general belief that the periodic anti-communist
witch-hunts of recent Indonesian history are largely a political
tool used by a powerful military elite and authoritarian
government. The book investigates what drove otherwise apolitical
subjects to be complicit in the engulfing cycles of witch-hunts. It
argues that elements of what began asan anti-communist campaign
took on a life of their own, increasingly operating independently
of the violence and individual subjects who appeared to be
manipulating the campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s.
Despite the profound importance of the 1965-6 events it remains one
of most difficult and sensitive topics for public discussion in
Indonesia today. State Terrorism and Political Identity in
Indonesia is one of the first books to fully discuss the mass
killings, shedding new light on a largely unspoken and unknown part
of Indonesia's history.
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