The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins

a worldwide capitalist order with the United States as its leading military power and center of cultural production.

They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right.

Aidit’s unarmed party didn’t survive. Allende’s democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington.

Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the ...

supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That ...

Right on the beach, a few feet from Badra’s home, is one of the bigger, more upscale beach clubs in Bali.

It is just accepted as a natural part of life.

“Even when we meet with NGO groups, the most internationally informed type of people, that know about Rwanda, Pol Pot, everything, no one has any idea what happened here,”

“They needed to kill the communists so that foreign investors could bring their capital here,” said Ngurah Termana. “Now, all visitors here see is our famous smile,” he continued. “They have no idea the darkness and fire that lurks underneath.”

But Ing Giok was out there with five or six women, unafraid to defend Lula,

“I don’t mean that we have different personal stories. I mean they don’t even know the truth of what our country used to be—our struggle for independence, and the values we held.”

“the land of the great amnesiac,”

“We have a psychological habit of looking ahead and not behind,”

“There’s a long and honorable record of American indifference to the world around us.”

They were all born in Dutch territory, and now they are back. Over their entire lives, the dream of an independent Indonesia they could call their home only lasted a short fifteen years.