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

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

Connecting the Dots

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.