Indonesia’s Emergence
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Indonesia’s Emergence
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Re: Indonesia’s Emergence
#2For people that can understand Dutch, the author of Revolusi, David Van Reybrouck also has an absolutely brilliant podcast with the same name.
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#3Obligatory plug for The Act of Killing, an absolutely surreal documentary about the Indonesian mass killings and what happened to the PKI after independence. Basically, they get some of the perps of mass murder to re-enact their crimes on camera.
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#4Modern history of Indonesia is also brutal, strange and very hard to grasp and accept. Just 6 months ago, a new generation choose a murderer, linked with previous coup as their new president because he was looking cute and post dancing videos on tiktok.
[I live in Indonesia as an expact]
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#5Indonesia's current political climate cannot be understood without understanding the 1965 Coup that shaped it.
I recommend "The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World" book for people looking to understand how the coup was orchestrated and what followed it.
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#6The US and UN sanctioned the Act of No Choice, a rigged "vote" that saw Indonesia take over West Papua and continue with a largely unreported brutality to this day.
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#7Modern history of Indonesia is also brutal, strange and very hard to grasp and accept. Just 6 months ago, a new generation choose a murderer, linked with previous coup as their new president because he was looking cute and post dancing videos on tiktok. [I live in Indonesia as an expact]
That would be Prabowo Subianto, formed US-trained special forces commander implicated with a whole bunch of murder in East Timor, Papua and in the final days of Suharto's regime.
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#8The US and UN sanctioned the Act of No Choice , a rigged "vote" that saw Indonesia take over West Papua and continue with a largely unreported brutality to this day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Free_Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_conflict
The Friendlyjordies video was extremely eye-opening
Not sure if it was taken down, update: https://youtu.be/nSf3268tAbg?si=9v7yFavM7okwMy9N
Can’t imagine day-to-day life with stepping on recently dropped unexploded bombs being a real danger
Re: Indonesia’s Emergence
#9The US and UN sanctioned the Act of No Choice , a rigged "vote" that saw Indonesia take over West Papua and continue with a largely unreported brutality to this day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Free_Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_conflict
Indonesia in general is somewhat of a colonial project. Sukarno had large visions of a great Indonesian empire, and what the people who actually lived there thought of that wasn't really his main concern.
Arguably the occupation of West-Papua is the worst of that. Also because there's just so little attention to it.
Re: Indonesia’s Emergence
#10Obligatory plug for The Act of Killing, an absolutely surreal documentary about the Indonesian mass killings and what happened to the PKI after independence. Basically, they get some of the perps of mass murder to re-enact their crimes on camera. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing
I found this interview on it better than the documentary itself (which scrubbed out a lot of the US role): https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2013/7/19?autostart=true