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Vincent Bevins: The Jakarta Method (Paperback, 2021, PublicAffairs) 5 stars

In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. …

Connecting the Dots

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Nothing particularly new here for those interested in this kind of thing... but very useful and compelling to have all the dots connected in this specific manner creating a compelling narrative around the particular shade of neo-colonialsim the US wrought on the world during the cold war and the days since.

For a particular interest in Colonialism, de-colonialism, repression and neocolonialism in Indonesia this would be an integral component of the picture along with:

The Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan the film The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer

These media taken together form a pretty solid overview of Indonesia's struggles against colonial forces from both Macrocosmic and Microcosmic perspective, from idealism and materialism, through research and lived experience.