Sacred and Cursed Bodies: The Necropolitics in the Suharto Regime's Politics of Memory

• Published in: Cultural and social history Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 555 - 571
• Main Author: Głąb, Katarzyna Marta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 07.08.2024; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Anti-communism; Biopolitics; Collective memory; Communism; Credibility; Indonesian mass murders 1965-66; Mass murders; Narratives; National identity; necropolitics; necroviolence; Political change; Politics; Politics of memory; Sacredness; Suharto (1921-2008); Victims; Indonesia

The article investigates the Suharto rule regime's use of necropolitics to construct Indonesia's memory of the 1965-66 mass murders. These memory politics were based on the anti-communist myth, which was the basis of the memory formation and creation of positive and negative heroes closely...