Indonesians recount role in massacre
By ANTHONY DEUTSCH
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — The men bound the thumbs of dozens of suspected communists behind their backs with banana leaves and drove them to a torch-lit jungle clearing. As villagers jeered, the prisoners were killed, one by one.
“There was no resistance,” remembers Sulchan, then the 21-year-old deputy […]
Category Archives: history
Indonesians recount role in massacre
November 16, 2008 – 1:25 pm
Politics of Islamization in Indonesia (1)
June 7, 2008 – 6:45 pm
previously published in The Jakarta Post, 6 June 2008
note: parts of the original manuscript have been cut; for a copy of the original, click here
When governments try to look more Islamic
Ariel Heryanto
The use and abuse of Islamic politics by the Soeharto government (1966-1998) and his immediate successor in transition, BJ Habibie (1998-1999), have […]
Julia Suryakusuma on May 1998
May 29, 2008 – 11:58 am
from Tempo No. 39/VIII/May 27-June 02, 2008
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
Julia Suryakusuma
Julia Suryakusuma is the author of Sex, Power and Nation. She can be contacted at jsuryakusuma@gmail.com
A FEW days ago, I relived the past in celluloid form: 10 films from Proyek […]
On “national awakening”
May 22, 2008 – 7:03 am
From The Jakarta Post, Wed, 05/21/2008
Questioning the relevance of nat’l awakening today
Ariel Heryanto
On Tuesday, Indonesia celebrated the 100th anniversary of its “national awakening”, commemorating the founding of Boedi Oetomo in 1908. This is officially considered to be the first modern “Indonesian” organization, but this is also highly contentious.
No writing in Indonesian has challenged this […]
Abdullah Gùl: “Most Muslims like to live in an Islamic society with a secular state”
May 15, 2008 – 10:01 am
“So far, no Islamist party has won a majority of the popular vote in any of the Muslim countries where reasonably clean elections are held. Often, the Islamist share of the votes has declined. In Malaysia, the Islamists have never gone beyond 11% of the popular vote. In Indonesia, the various Islamist groups have never […]