Abstract
More than a generation separates today's Indonesians from the world in which the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) was exterminated. Nonetheless, during the last days of President Suharto's slow fall from power, one of the dire warnings commonly heard was that Indonesia perhaps stood on the brink of a bloodletting similar to that which took place during the six months from October 1965 to March 1966. In fact, the broader political context of 1998 only slightly resembled that of 1965 and no genocidal slaughter took place. However, that the events of 1965-66 could be conjured up as a terrible warning demonstrated that the issues surrounding the means Suharto used to come to power were still alive even three decades later, ready to be conjoined with more current concerns as he was being forced out.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 550-563 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Asian Survey |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2002 |