Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia Imagined Evil

Synopsis

In Indonesia, the events of 1st October 1965 were followed by a campaign to annihilate the Communist Party and its alleged sympathisers. It resulted in the murder of an estimate of one million people – a genocide that counts as one of the largest mass murders after WWII – and the incarceration of another million, many of them for a decade or more without any legal process. This drive was justified and enabled by a propaganda campaign in which communists were painted as atheist, hypersexual, amoral and intent to destroy the nation. To date, the effects of this campaign are still felt, and the victims are denied the right of association and freedom of speech.
This book presents the history of the genocide and propaganda campaign and the process towards the International People’s Tribunal on 1965 crimes against humanity in Indonesia (IPT 1965), which was held in November 2015 in The Hague, The Netherlands. The authors, an Indonesian Human Rights lawyer and a Dutch academic examine this unique event, which for the first time brings these crimes before an international court, and its verdict. They single out the campaign of hate propaganda as it provided the incitement to kill so many Indonesians and why this propaganda campaign is effective to this day. The first book on this topic, it fills a significant gap in Asian Studies and Genocide Studies.

Book details

Series:

Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

Author:

Saskia E. Wieringa, Nursyahbani Katjasungkana

ISBN:

9780429802447

Related ISBNs:

9780429440243, 9781138229099, 9781138229099

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Pages:

210

Reading age:

Not specified

Includes images:

No

Date of addition:

2020-03-22

Usage restrictions:

Copyright

Copyright date:

2019

Copyright by:

N/A 

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Social Studies