The Act of Killing did not win Hollywood’s favor. The activist-oriented systematic promotion of the documentary, however, has helped it to have a significant impact on public discussion of the mass killings of 1965, both in Indonesia and internationally. A single film could never overthrow the hegemony of half a century of indoctrination, but it […]
NEW ARTICLE: Indonesia: trade unions and the regeneration of radical politics – by Max Lane
A major thesis of Unfinished Nation[1](written between 2007 and 2008), was that the fall of Suharto was not the simple product of objective conditions, such as the 1997 Asian economic crisis, nor of some kind of automatic rot from within the regime due to corrupt “sultanisation”, contradictions within an oligarchy or similar phenomena.[2] The crucial factor in […]
Artikel: MENCARI INDONESIA VERSI 17 AGUSTUS oleh Max Lane
PADA kolom “17 Agustus versus 1 Oktober” yang lalu diakhiri dengan pertanyaan: “memilih Indonesia versi 17 Agustus 1945 atau Indonesia versi 1 Oktober 1965?”. Di dalam tulisan tersebut saya berusaha berpendapat bahwa 17 Agustus adalah simbol revolusi nasional Indonesia (yang belum tuntas) dan 1 Oktober simbol kontra-revolusi 1965 yang melahirkan Orde Baru Suharto (OBS). Tetapi […]
Kolom Baru: “Menunggu (Lagi) Zaman Pencerahan di Indonesia?” di Historia.Com
Kolom Baru: “Menunggu (Lagi) Zaman Pencerahan di Indonesia?” di Historia.Com
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