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Pretext for Mass Murder
In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior surviving general, Haji Mohammad Suharto, drove the movement’s partisans out of Jakarta. Riding the crest of mass violence, Suharto blamed the Communist Party of Indonesia for masterminding the movement and used the emergency as a pretext for gradually eroding President Sukarno’s powers and installing himself as a ruler. Imprisoning and killing hundreds of thousands of alleged communists over the nex...
The Invisible Palace
ONE AUGUST NIGHT IN 1996, on a rural highway in Java, an investigative journalist was beaten to death by unknown assailants. Two months later, police arrested a high-school drop-out and put him on trial for the reporter's murder. One problem: the accused killer had never met his alleged victim. Entwined in local rivalries, media intrigues, and the long-held beliefs of many Javanese in fate, myth and magic, the killing of Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin spawned an unprecedented criminal investigation, a gripping courtroom drama and a nationwide controversy that signaled the iron rule of Indonesia's longtime president, Suharto, was ending. Researched and written over two years from confidential docum...
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Journalist Slain
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Djakarta Dispatches
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Indonesia--1965
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Dekolonisasi Buruh Kota dan Pembentukan Bangsa
Dalam sejarah Indonesia, buruh adalah sebuah kata yang tidak semua orang dapat menerimanya dengan baik karena berbagai alasan subjektif masing-masing. Pada masa ketika sebuah rezim paranoid yang selalu mengalami ketakutan dan kecurigaan yang berlebihan terhadap masa lalu seperti Orde Baru misalnya, kata buruh sama sekali tidak memiliki hak hidup secara formal karena bayang-bayang tentang kelompok sosial ini yang selalu dikaitkan dengan ideologi kiri revolusioner atau komunis yang dianggap sebagai musuh utama rezim yang sedang berkuasa waktu itu. Buku ini tidak hanya menghadirkan kenyataan sejarah melainkan juga kenyataan-kenyataan lain yang sangat bermanfaat untuk memahami Indonesia sebagai sebuah keutuhan dengan menempatkan buruh sebagai aktor utama di dalam proses berbangsa dan bernegara. Bambang Purwanto, MA., PhD (Pengajar Jurusan Sejarah UGM)
