Counterrevolutionary Violence in Indonesia

In October 1965, the Indonesian Army and an alliance of anti-communist civilian forces initiated a systematic attack on the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia, PKI). Over the course of the next three years pogroms against the PKI left at least five hundred thousand people dead, hun...

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Published inState Violence in East Asia p. 159
Main Author Douglas Kammen
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States The University Press of Kentucky 2013
University Press of Kentucky
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Summary:In October 1965, the Indonesian Army and an alliance of anti-communist civilian forces initiated a systematic attack on the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia, PKI). Over the course of the next three years pogroms against the PKI left at least five hundred thousand people dead, hundreds of thousands more under detention, and unknown numbers dislocated within their communities. So horrific was the attack on the PKI that it is often counted as one of the worst cases of mass violence in the twentieth century.¹ That much is clear. But what sort of attack was it? Among scholars of Indonesia,
ISBN:0813136792
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