Indonesian politics
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The Jakarta Method and the Making of Southeast Asian Security
In the mid-1960s, mass killings in Indonesia were viewed as an effective security solution to the growing Communist Party and to critics of the Suharto regime. Backed by Washington, Indonesia’s military crushed perceived threats through coordinated violence–an approach later described by American journalist Vincent Bevins as the “Jakarta Method.” Despite…
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Security by Solidarity: The Shifting Scapegoating of Chinese-Indonesians in Modern Indonesia
As Indonesia’s working class began to unravel the entrenched corruption embedded in its national legislature in early August 2025, memories of the racialized violence of 1998 surged back into public consciousness– years when the ethnic Chinese community bore the brunt of civil unrest. Yet amidst these echoes of the past,…
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