Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia: Imagined Evil

by Saskia E. Wieringa and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367584271
• ISBN13: 9780367584276
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"