Jess Melvin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3650994 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jess Melvin |
| NOMBRES | Jess |
| APELLIDO | Melvin |
| FIRMA | MELVIN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5699-855X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Debate on The army and the Indonesian genocide
The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide
The International People’s Tribunal addressed the many forms of violence during the period of the massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia. It was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in November 2015, to commemorate fifty years since the killings began. The Tribunal, as a people’s court, holds no jurisdiction and was an attempt to achieve symbolic justice for the crimes of 1965. This book offers new and previously unpublished insights into the types o…
Destroy and Kill ‘the Left
This essay focuses on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech delivered in December 2018 regarding his intent to wipe out the communist elements in the country. It first provides a background on the fifty-year-long communist insurgency in the Philippines and the peace process under Duterte’s administration. It then historically reflects on the case of coordinated killings of communists in Indonesia during Suharto’s regime to examine whether…
Consolidation of the new regime
Chapter 7 documents violence against Aceh’s Chinese community during the time of the genocide and records the purge of Aceh’s civil service. It shows race-based violence did occur during the time of the genocide. It also shows the different ways in which Aceh’s pro-Beijing (pro-PKI) and pro-Kuomintang (pro-military) Chinese communities were initially treated by the military, before indiscriminate violence by the military’s civilian proxies result…
The order to annihilate
Chapter 3 documents internal military communications during the morning of 1 October 1965. It shows Suharto sent telegrams to Indonesian’s Inter-Regional Military Commanders on this day, before these orders were sent to Indonesia’s Provincial Military Commanders. It presents evidence Sumatra’s Inter-Regional Military Commander issued an order for the military to “annihilate” the 30 September Movement at midnight. It additionally records how Aceh’…
Conclusion
The Conclusion provides an overview of patterns that can be seen in the genocide in Aceh. It explains how records from Aceh prove the military understood and implemented the genocide as a centralised national campaign. It reflects on similarities between the Indonesian genocide and other cases of genocide. The Conclusion ends by returning to the present. It asks what should be done now that military accountability for the killings can be proven a…
Killing to destroy
Chapter 6 documents how systematic killings began in Aceh from 14 October as a means of physically destroying the now large prison population in the province. This was the beginning of the genocide proper. To coincide with this intensification of the military’s campaign the military established a “War Room” to carryout “nonconventional warfare” against Indonesia’s communist group. From this time, prisoners were taken on the back of trucks to mili…
The struggle for the Indonesian state
Chapter 2 reflects on the political struggle for control of the Indonesian state that existed in Indonesia prior to the outbreak of the genocide between Sukarno, the Indonesian military and the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). It explains how this struggle evolved and intensified between the 1950s and early 1960s. It argues the Indonesian genocide files provide evidence the military was actively preparing to seize state power during the months p…
Pogrom and public killings
Chapter 5 draws upon military records to show how public violence broke out throughout Aceh’s districts following Djuarsa’s coordination tour from 7 October. This violence began as demonstrations that marched on PKI houses and offices. These houses and offices were often burnt down. Individuals suspected of being connected to the PKI who were discovered during these demonstrations were regularly killed directly in the street, or taken to death ho…
Why genocide?
Chapter 1 argues the Indonesian killings should be understood as a case of genocide. It demonstrates how the Indonesian genocide files are able to prove military intent to “destroy in whole or in part” Indonesia’s communist group. It proposes Indonesia’s communist group fits the definition of a protected target group under the Genocide Convention. It also reflects on how religion was deliberately manipulated by the military during the time of the…
Djuarsa’s coordination tour
Chapter 4 follows Aceh’s Military Commander, Ishak Djuarsa, as he travels around Aceh province, meeting first with district-level military leaders, before holding mass public meetings at sports fields, where he would repeat his order for civilians to participate in the military’s annihilation campaign. Eyewitness accounts from these meetings confirm that Djuarsa’s announcements were interpreted at the time as an order to kill.
The Indonesian Genocide of 1965
The Army and the Indonesian Genocide
For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in …
The Army and the Indonesian Genocide
For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency's archives in …
Mechanics of Mass Murder
This article presents an overview of new evidence recovered from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in Banda Aceh that is able to prove, for the first time, military agency behind the 1965–66 killings in Indonesia. The military leadership, these documents show, initiated and implemented the killings as part of a coordinated national campaign. This campaign was described by the military leadership as an “annihilation operation” a…
Why Not Genocide? Anti-Chinese Violence in Aceh, 1965–1966
This article provides an account of anti-Chinese violence in Aceh between 1 October 1965 and 17 August 1966. Drawing upon original oral history evidence and previously unknown documentary sources, this article builds upon current scholarly understandings that two phases of violence involving members of the ethnic Chinese community can be identified in Aceh during this period, to explain how a third explicitly ethnic-based phase of violence direct…
The Army and the Indonesian Genocide
For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in …
Why Not Genocide? Anti-Chinese Violence in Aceh, 1965–1966
This article provides an account of anti-Chinese violence in Aceh between 1 October 1965 and 17 August 1966. Drawing upon original oral history evidence and previously unknown documentary sources, this article builds upon current scholarly understandings that two phases of violence involving members of the ethnic Chinese community can be identified in Aceh during this period, to explain how a third explicitly ethnic-based phase of violence direct…
Mechanics of Mass Murder
This article presents an overview of new evidence recovered from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in Banda Aceh that is able to prove, for the first time, military agency behind the 1965–66 killings in Indonesia. The military leadership, these documents show, initiated and implemented the killings as part of a coordinated national campaign. This campaign was described by the military leadership as an “annihilation operation” a…
Why Not Genocide? Anti-Chinese Violence in Aceh, 1965–1966
This article provides an account of anti-Chinese violence in Aceh between 1 October 1965 and 17 August 1966. Drawing upon original oral history evidence and previously unknown documentary sources, this article builds upon current scholarly understandings that two phases of violence involving members of the ethnic Chinese community can be identified in Aceh during this period, to explain how a third explicitly ethnic-based phase of violence direct…
Mechanics of Mass Murder
This article presents an overview of new evidence recovered from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in Banda Aceh that is able to prove, for the first time, military agency behind the 1965–66 killings in Indonesia. The military leadership, these documents show, initiated and implemented the killings as part of a coordinated national campaign. This campaign was described by the military leadership as an “annihilation operation” a…
Consolidation of the new regime
Chapter 7 documents violence against Aceh’s Chinese community during the time of the genocide and records the purge of Aceh’s civil service. It shows race-based violence did occur during the time of the genocide. It also shows the different ways in which Aceh’s pro-Beijing (pro-PKI) and pro-Kuomintang (pro-military) Chinese communities were initially treated by the military, before indiscriminate violence by the military’s civilian proxies result…
The order to annihilate
Chapter 3 documents internal military communications during the morning of 1 October 1965. It shows Suharto sent telegrams to Indonesian’s Inter-Regional Military Commanders on this day, before these orders were sent to Indonesia’s Provincial Military Commanders. It presents evidence Sumatra’s Inter-Regional Military Commander issued an order for the military to “annihilate” the 30 September Movement at midnight. It additionally records how Aceh’…
Conclusion
The Conclusion provides an overview of patterns that can be seen in the genocide in Aceh. It explains how records from Aceh prove the military understood and implemented the genocide as a centralised national campaign. It reflects on similarities between the Indonesian genocide and other cases of genocide. The Conclusion ends by returning to the present. It asks what should be done now that military accountability for the killings can be proven a…
Killing to destroy
Chapter 6 documents how systematic killings began in Aceh from 14 October as a means of physically destroying the now large prison population in the province. This was the beginning of the genocide proper. To coincide with this intensification of the military’s campaign the military established a “War Room” to carryout “nonconventional warfare” against Indonesia’s communist group. From this time, prisoners were taken on the back of trucks to mili…
The struggle for the Indonesian state
Chapter 2 reflects on the political struggle for control of the Indonesian state that existed in Indonesia prior to the outbreak of the genocide between Sukarno, the Indonesian military and the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). It explains how this struggle evolved and intensified between the 1950s and early 1960s. It argues the Indonesian genocide files provide evidence the military was actively preparing to seize state power during the months p…
Pogrom and public killings
Chapter 5 draws upon military records to show how public violence broke out throughout Aceh’s districts following Djuarsa’s coordination tour from 7 October. This violence began as demonstrations that marched on PKI houses and offices. These houses and offices were often burnt down. Individuals suspected of being connected to the PKI who were discovered during these demonstrations were regularly killed directly in the street, or taken to death ho…
Why genocide?
Chapter 1 argues the Indonesian killings should be understood as a case of genocide. It demonstrates how the Indonesian genocide files are able to prove military intent to “destroy in whole or in part” Indonesia’s communist group. It proposes Indonesia’s communist group fits the definition of a protected target group under the Genocide Convention. It also reflects on how religion was deliberately manipulated by the military during the time of the…
Djuarsa’s coordination tour
Chapter 4 follows Aceh’s Military Commander, Ishak Djuarsa, as he travels around Aceh province, meeting first with district-level military leaders, before holding mass public meetings at sports fields, where he would repeat his order for civilians to participate in the military’s annihilation campaign. Eyewitness accounts from these meetings confirm that Djuarsa’s announcements were interpreted at the time as an order to kill.
The Indonesian Genocide of 1965
The Army and the Indonesian Genocide
For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in …
The Army and the Indonesian Genocide
For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency's archives in …
The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide
The International People’s Tribunal addressed the many forms of violence during the period of the massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia. It was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in November 2015, to commemorate fifty years since the killings began. The Tribunal, as a people’s court, holds no jurisdiction and was an attempt to achieve symbolic justice for the crimes of 1965. This book offers new and previously unpublished insights into the types o…
Destroy and Kill ‘the Left
This essay focuses on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech delivered in December 2018 regarding his intent to wipe out the communist elements in the country. It first provides a background on the fifty-year-long communist insurgency in the Philippines and the peace process under Duterte’s administration. It then historically reflects on the case of coordinated killings of communists in Indonesia during Suharto’s regime to examine whether…
Debate on The army and the Indonesian genocide
Political science (10 obras) · Indonesian (9 obras) · Asian Studies and History (8 obras) · Genocide (8 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (5 obras) · Linguistics (5 obras) · Cambodian History and Society (4 obras) · Criminology (4 obras) · Genocide (4 obras)