V annessa H earman . Unmarked Graves

The past fifteen years have witnessed a belated growth of interest in the mass killings of 1965–66 in Indonesia, which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people identified with the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia, or PKI) and other left-wing organizations in the country. Notable scholarly contributions have included John Roosa, Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’État in Indonesia (2006); Douglas Kammen and Katharine McGregor (eds.), The Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia, 1965–68 (2012); Jess Melvin, The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (2018); and Geoffrey B. Robinson, The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66 (2018). Meanwhile, Joshua Oppenheimer’s two highly acclaimed Oscar-nominated films, The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), have drawn interest to the Indonesian violence of 1965–66 among broader audiences in a diverse range of countries across...

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