Reviews
Reviews: Flipping the national story of 1965
Recent ground-breaking publications, an internationally award-winning film and a major conference are opening up new truths about Indonesia’s past
Review: When perpetrators speak
Joshua Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking new film raises disturbing questions about why perpetrators of the 1965-66 mass killings still enjoy impunity for their actions
Review: An act of manipulation?
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia
'Truth takes a while, justice even longer'
In 2012 significant new information exposed critical truths about the 1965 massacres in Indonesia, but there remain major obstacles to recovery and reconciliation
Review: Power politics
Jeffrey Winters’ Oligarchy is an epic work of comparative political insight but has little that is new to add to the study of Indonesia’s politics
Review: Journey to womanhood
Eva Nourma’s novel provides us with a glimpse into the everyday lives of the Sasak community from Lombok – a group often overlooked in Indonesian literature
Review: Men and masculinities
A new book sheds light on the little studied field of male heterosexuality in Southeast Asia
Review: Clashing interpretations
A new book warns against a simplistic understanding of religion, something that its editor feels the Western media does much too often
Review: Surviving and resisting in Timor-Leste
Conway presents a collection of oral histories that brings to the forefront the role of women in the resistance movement
Review: A complicated life
Jemma Purdey reveals the inner torment behind the charisma, generosity and enigma of the public man that was Herb Feith
Review: Picturing Indonesian modernity
The demand for sustainable timber is colliding with the needs of Central Java farmers
Jusuf Wanandi’s memoir allows glimpses into the mindset of Suharto-era officialdom
Indonesia’s parliament is cracking down on sorcery
Recent ground-breaking publications, an internationally award-winning film and a major conference are opening up new truths about Indonesia’s past
The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror
