State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia: Fatally Belonging (Politics in Asia)
By Ariel Heryanto.
Description
Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals, neighbours 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 spectre of communism and the trauma experienced in the latter half of the 1960s remain critical in understanding the...
ISBN(s)
041537152X, 9780415371520
