Roots of Violence in Indonesia

Roots of Violence in Indonesia Freek Colombijn Primary Author mixed material bibliography Leiden KITLV Press 2002 id Indonesian Jakarta, Sambas, Poso, the Moluccas, West Papua. These simple geographical names have recently been associated with mass killing, like Aceh and East Timor, where large-scale violence has flared up again. Lethal incidents between adjacent villages, or between a petty criminal and the crowd, take place throughout Indonesia. Many Indonesia-watchers, both scholars and journalists, explain the violence in terms of the loss of the monopoly on the means of violence by the state since the beginning of the Reforms in 1998. Others point at the omnipresent remnants of the New Order state (1966ñ1998), former President Soehartoís clan, or the army in particular, as the evil genius behind the present bloodshed. The contributors to this volume try to explain violence in Indonesia by looking at it in historical perspective NONE 9067181889 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 959.8 COL Roo 8270 C2O library & collabtive (Non Fiction) 959.8 COL Roo 6384349._SY475_.jpg.jpg 6903 2019-06-29 15:12:13 2019-06-29 15:12:52 machine generated