The Organisation of the Killings and the Interaction between State and Society in Central Java, 1965

This article investigates how the Indonesian state organised the killing of approx. 100,000 communists and alleged communists in Central Java in 1965. It presents the argument that even though state institutions unleashed the killings and perpetrated much of the violence, the state's control ov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathias Hammer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/186810341303200303