Sexual Politics in Indonesia

Wieringa, Saskia

doi:10.1057/9781403919922

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“…Moreover, as Saskia Wieringa has convincingly argued, it played on the particular anxieties of conservative Indonesian men for whom the ostensibly uncontrolled sexuality of Gerwani women-not to mention their autonomy and political engagement-represented an unacceptable threat to their patriarchal position and world view. 70 Before long, similar stories began to appear in places outside of Jakarta. In Bali, officials claimed that their interrogation of a senior Gerwani figure had revealed that members of the organization had been instructed to "sell" themselves to soldiers in order to obtain weapons for the PKI and, having done so, to murder and castrate the men they had seduced.…”

Section: Traitors and Whoresmentioning

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“Down to the Very Roots”: The Indonesian Army’s Role in the Mass Killings of 1965–66

Robinson

2017

Journal of Genocide Research

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This article makes the case that the anticommunist violence of 1965-66 in Indonesia was neither inevitable nor spontaneous, but was encouraged, facilitated, directed and shaped by the Indonesian army leadership. It develops that argument in three parts. It shows first how the temporal and geographical variations in the pattern of mass killing corresponded closely to the varied political postures and capacities of army commanders in different locales, and how the mass violence everywhere depended on the army's substantial logistical assets. Next, it outlines how the army encouraged and directed mass killings by mobilizing militia groups and death squads, and encouraging them to detain and kill members of the PKI (Partai Komunis Indonesia-Indonesian Communist Party) and its allies. Third, it describes how the army provoked and legitimized mass violence by launching a sophisticated media and propaganda campaign that blamed the PKI for the kidnap and murder of six army generals on 1 October 1965, and called for the party and its affiliates to be physically annihilated. The army had allies in this effort, none more enthusiastic than the anticommunist religious and political leaders who fanned the flames of hatred and violence by allusions to long-standing religious and cultural differences. Mass violence was also fuelled by the wider international context of the Cold War and by the acts and omissions of key foreign powers. But without the army's orchestrated campaign to cast the PKI as evil, without the conscious decision to effect its physical annihilation, and without the mobilization of the army's considerable organizational and logistical capacity to carry out that decision, it is unlikely that any of those long-standing tensions or external forces would ever have given rise to violence of such staggering breadth and brutality.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Traitors and Whoresmentioning

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“Down to the Very Roots”: The Indonesian Army’s Role in the Mass Killings of 1965–66

Robinson

2017

Journal of Genocide Research

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“…I cried when I heard the stories about women in prison; how they were raped and sexually humiliated. My own thesis and books, including my book Sexual Politics in Indonesia (Wieringa, 2002), are motivated by this anger and it reflects my own anger towards sexual humiliation and sexual violence. I have experienced sexual violence.…”

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confidence: 98%

Saskia Wieringa

Heumann¹

2017

Development and Change

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“…As previously mentioned, the New Order rhetoric often reminded women of their kodrat, a natural destiny stipulating that women should be meek, passive, and obedient to the male members of the family, sexually shy and modest, self-sacrificing and nurturing, and find their main vocation as a wife and mother (Wierenga, 2002). However, similar characteristics are also taught to Javanese women from generation to generation, and therewith highly define traditional Javanese values and characters.…”

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The New Order Nationalist Rhetoric: The Articulation of Javanese Identity in Post-Colonial Indonesia

Rahmita¹

2017

IAFOR J Cult Stud

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The article seeks to find evidence that Indonesians perception of 'the west' is still continue to be informed by the past 'nationalist' rhetoric of the New Order government. Ever since Indonesia's second president, Soeharto, the state government has raised awareness of 'the West's' cultural paradigm by using dogmatic virtues of female sexuality and 'westernization'. The article employs scholarly archives in the form of school textbooks in order to critically trace the tensions between nationalism and what is perceived as 'western' culture, as well as its effect on gender and sexuality norms in Indonesia.

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Sexual Politics in Indonesia

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“Down to the Very Roots”: The Indonesian Army’s Role in the Mass Killings of 1965–66

“Down to the Very Roots”: The Indonesian Army’s Role in the Mass Killings of 1965–66

Saskia Wieringa

The New Order Nationalist Rhetoric: The Articulation of Javanese Identity in Post-Colonial Indonesia

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