Unresolved Problems in the Indonesian Killings of 1965–1966

Cribb, Robert

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“…Since the 17th century, large numbers of Madurese have moved to the mainland of Java and especially to its north coast and its eastern part (Cribb 2000:52, Nooteboom 2003:78, Tennekens 1963. Husson (1997: 85) quotes Van Nes (1832) who writes that already by 1832 the residence of Pasuruan (on the mainland of Java) had a population of 170,049 Javanese and 92,463 Madurese.…”

Section: Forgotten People: Madurese In Indonesiamentioning

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“…As communism is still a delicate subject today, villagers were reluctant to talk about this part of the history of East Java. However, older people from Bondowoso showed me some of the places where bodies were dumped.11 The exact numbers of those killed in Indonesia are not known, but some estimates mention one million people, most of whom were living in East Java (Cribb 1990, Ricklefs 1991.…”

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Forgotten People: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia

Nooteboom¹

2015

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This publication has been typeset in the multilingual 'Brill' typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.ISSN 1572-1892 isbn 978-90-04-28250-6 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-28298-8 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by Gerben Nooteboom. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff and Hotei Publishing. Koninklijke Brill nv reserves the right to protect the publication against unauthorized use and to authorize dissemination by means of offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources, such as abstracting and indexing services including databases. Requests for commercial re-use, use of parts of the publication, and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill nv.This book is printed on acid-free paper.

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Section: Forgotten People: Madurese In Indonesiamentioning

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Section: Madurese Migration To East Java -A Short Historymentioning

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Forgotten People: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia

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2015

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“…For six months in full during social disturbance and chaotic situation, there was Indonesian killings to those who were labeled as the member of PKI, especially in Java and Bali Islands (Cribb, 1990). Likewise, there was demonstration held by college students in big cities of Java Island showing their criticism over the government (Soe Hok Gie, 1993, pp.…”

Section: Supersemar (Order Of March 1966 the Eleventh)mentioning

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Contemporary History of Indonesia between Historical Truth and Group Purpose

Abdullah¹

2015

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Contemporary history is the very latest history at which the historic event traces are close and still encountered by us at the present day. As a just away event which seems still exists, it becomes controversial about when the historical event is actually called contemporary. Characteristic of contemporary history genre is complexity of an event and its interpretation. For cases in Indonesia, contemporary history usually begins from 1945. It is so because not only all documents, files and other primary sources have not been uncovered and learned by public yet where historical reconstruction can be made in a whole, but also a fact that some historical figures and persons are still alive. This last point summons protracted historical debate when there are some collective or personal memories and political consideration and present power. The historical facts are often provided to please one side, while disagreeable fact is often hidden from other side. The article aims to discuss some subject matter of contemporary history in Indonesia as they are printed in history textbook for school, along with varies issues. The article will make correction about context of some issues that they actually used as discussion topic among teachers of history. In the last part of this article, it will outline on how we respond to contemporary history of Indonesia. Conclusion is made that in context of contemporary history in Indonesia, it found two interests, i.e. for historical truth and group purpose.

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“…Muhammadiyah declared that the ''extermination of the Gestapu/PKI and the Nekolim (neo-colonialist forces) is an obligatory religious duty'' (Boland, 1982: 146). This call for a ''holy war'' was subsequently echoed by many Muslim leaders, who justified the killings of the communists as ''the will of Allah'' (see Cribb, 1990;Schwarz, 1994). An agreement was drawn up between NU leaders and the army that the youth movement, Ansor, and its armed wing, Banser, would support the army in its extermination of leftists.…”

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“…11 Amnesty International cites the one million figure. Cribb (1990) is more conservative; he concluded that it was most likely that around 500,000 people were massacred. Sarwo Edhie, who led the army units that orchestrated the killings, boasted of having reached a total of three million dead (cited in Wieringa, 2002).…”

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Sexual Slander and the 1965/66 Mass Killings in Indonesia: Political and Methodological Considerations

Wieringa

2011

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Indonesia has been haunted by the ''spectre of communism'' since the putsch by military officers on 1 October 1965. That event saw the country's top brass murdered and the military attributing this putsch to the Communist Party. The genocide that followed was triggered by a campaign of sexual slander. This led to the real coup and the replacement of President Sukarno by General Suharto. Today, accusations about communism continue to play a major role in public life and state control remains shored up by control over women's bodies. This article introduces the putsch and the socialist women's organisation Gerwani, members of which were, at the time, accused of sexual debauchery. The focus is on the question of how Gerwani was portrayed in the aftermath of the putsch and how this affects the contemporary women's movement. It is found that women's political agency has been restricted, being associated with sexual debauchery and social turmoil. State women's organisations were set up and women's organisations forced to help build a ''stable'' society, based on women's subordination. The more independent women's groups were afraid to be labelled ''new Gerwani'' as that would unleash strong state repression. This article assesses the implications of these events for the post-1998 period of Reformasi and reviews some recent analyses of 1965, state terrorism and violence and reveals blind spots in dealing with gender and sexual politics. It is argued that the slander against Gerwani is downplayed in these analyses. In fact, this slander was the spark without which the bloodbath would not have happened and would not have acquired its gruesome significance.

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Unresolved Problems in the Indonesian Killings of 1965–1966

Cited by 57 publications

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Forgotten People: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia

Forgotten People: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia

Contemporary History of Indonesia between Historical Truth and Group Purpose

Sexual Slander and the 1965/66 Mass Killings in Indonesia: Political and Methodological Considerations

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