Roots of violence in Indonesia : : contemporary violence in historical perspective / / edited by Freek Colombijn, J. Thomas Lindblad.

Jakarta, Sambas, Poso, the Moluccas, West Papua. These simple, geographical names have recently obtained strong associations with mass killing, just as Aceh and East Timor, where large-scale violence has flared up again. Lethal incidents between adjacent villages, or between a petty criminal and the...

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Superior document:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : KITLV Press,, [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Physical Description:1 online resource (356 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Freek Colombijn and J. Thomas Lindblad , "Introduction"
  • Historical continuity
  • Henk Schulte Nordholt , "A genealogy of violence"
  • Henk M.J. Maier , "Telling tales, cutting throats - the guts of Putu Wijaya"
  • Elsbeth Locher-Scholten , "State violence and the police in colonial Indonesia around 1920
  • Exploration of a theme"
  • Erwiza Erman , "Generalized violence: A case study of the Ombilin coal mines, 1892-1996"
  • Budi Agustono , "Violence in North Sumatra's plantations"
  • Army violence
  • William H. Frederick , "Shadows of an unseen hand: Some patterns of violence in the Indonesian revolution, 1945-1949"
  • R.E. Elson , "In fear of the people: Suharto and the justification of state-sponsored violence under the New Order"
  • Liem Soei Liong , "It's the military, stupid!"
  • Robert Cribb , "From total people's defence to massacre: Explaining Indonesian military violence in East Timor"
  • Geoffrey Robinson , "The fruitless search for a smoking gun: Tracing the origins of violence in East Timor"
  • Communal violence
  • Kees van Dijk , "The good, the bad and the ugly: explaining the unexplainable
  • amuk massa in Indonesia"
  • Freek Colombijn , "Maling, maling! Lynching in Indonesia".