1. The Act of Killing
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2012
   A film is about the individuals who participated in the Indonesian killings of 1965–66.
2. Blood on Their Banner
   Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   An expose of the political policies of France, Indonesia and the United States and how they pose the greatest threat to the stability of the region.
3. Bound By Power
   Intended Consequences
   Resource Type: Book
   These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1978
   
5. The CIA's Greatest Hits
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994
   Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
6. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
7. Connexions Digest
   Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1989
   
8. Connexions Digest
   Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1991
   
9. Connexions Library: Pacific Region Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Pacific region.
10. Democratic Revolution and Socialist Revolution: A Reply to Malik Miah
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    IN ATC 75 Malik Miah presents an analysis of events surrounding the fall of Indonesian President Suharto (“Indonesia's Democratic Revolution”). As a descriptive report of what has been happening in that country his effort is valuable to activists. However, as an analytical assessment of what is at stake the article falls short.
11. Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
12. Dilemmas of Third World Communism
    The Destruction of the PKI in Indonesia
    Resource Type: Book
    Dilemmas of Third World Communism is a study of the Indonesian Communist Party that aims to answer more general questions about the difficulties, and even defeats, encountered by so many left-wing movements in the Third World. Olle Tornquist argues that one fundamental reason for the Indonesian military's successful destruction of the Party lay in the Party's failure to analyze the nature of the post-colonial capitalist society that was emerging.
13. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
14. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
15. The Forgotten Massacres
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Fifty years ago, in 1965, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists were slaughtered -- all with the support of the US. For decades, this version of the mass killings of 1965–66 has been reinforced by state propaganda and parroted by Western experts who saw the "spontaneous" eruption in murderous violence as confirmation of pre-existing racist ideas about fanatical and irrational "orientals."
16. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
17. A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Review of a book of the Indonesian massacres contains lengthy excerpts and summary of the history.
18. Horrid Carcass of Indonesia - 50 Years After the Coup
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Indonesia has matured into perhaps the most corrupt country on Earth, and possibly into the most indoctrinated and compassionless place anywhere under the sun.
19. Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The campaign last year to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College, Oxford, has provoked more discussion of the British Empire and its crimes than we have seen for many years. Rather than keeping quiet about Britain's imperial past, the Rhodes Must Fall campaign has actually flushed establishment apologists out into the open. They have been forced to defend the legacy of a man who, if he had not been British and had not given a substantial bribe to Oxford University, would today be generally acknowledged by everyone as a corrupt fraudster, thief, liar and killer for profit, as someone marked out only by the enormity of his crimes. The hypocrisy that the debate over Rhodes Must Fall has occasioned has been very instructive in itself, but what is intended here is an examination not just of the part played by hypocrisy in the defence of British imperialism, but of the other strategies employed: suppression and amnesia.
20. Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
21. Indonesia: 41 dead, 546 assaulted, 51 shot in agrarian conflicts under Jokowi’s watch
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    An explosion of agrarian conflicts between 2014 and 2018 has resulted in many casualties including 41 people killed, 546 people assaulted and 51 people shot since President Joko Widodo came to office.
22. Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Fire is raging across the 5,000km length of Indonesia.It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but here’s a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions of Germany.
23. Indonesia Update: An Economic Titanic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    "LIVING IN AN Economic Nightmare" is the headline of Time Asia's cover story on Indonesia (August 3). In one year's time Indonesia's per capita income dropped from $1300 per capita to less than $300. In human terms, this has meant unbelievable suffering for an average working person. According to Indonesian government figures, more than 50 million people have fallen below the poverty line since the country's financial crisis began in July 1997.
24. Indonesia's Unfolding Democratic Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    AS WE GO TO PRESS, the pro-democratic forces continue to push their advantage against the weakened army-backed Habibie government. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund agreed to soften implementation of its economic austerity package to give Habibie and the military more time to hopefully bring political stability. In addition, the big Western banks, led by Chase Manhattan, have agreed to reschedule repayment of nearly $80 billion in private debt.
25. Killing Hope 
    U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
26. The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66,
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2018
    
27. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
28. The Look of Silence
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2014
    The Look of Silence (Indonesian: Senyap, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece to Oppenheimer's 2012 documentary The Act of Killing.
29. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
30. Marcus Gee's Confusion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    The United States didn't 'fail to intervene' in East Timor -- it intervened massively, on the side of the Indonesian invaders.
31. Marx at the Margins 
    On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2016
    Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
32. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
33. Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
34. The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
35. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
36. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
    Forests and trees
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
37. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
38. Palm Oil company plan to slow deforestation 'another land-grab'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A palm oil company's 'forest conservation' programme in Indonesia has ended up being a second land grab, seizing resources from local communities' control.
39. Perspectives On Power
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
40. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
41. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    
42. Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    IF YOU READ only the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, or watched CNN, your view of the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia with its 210 million people, would be of Muslims (ninety percent of the population) and Christians killing each other, as well as pogroms against ethnic Chinese, Dayaks attacking migrants and the people of the "Spice Islands" engaging in communal violence.
    
43. Racism and Sexual Violence in Indonesia
    Where Fear Stalks the Streets
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Indonesia, since 1965, performed three genocides fully backed by the West.
44. The Real Terror Network 
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
45. Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
46. Rejoinder: The Dynamics of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    ONE COMMON ERROR socialists tend to make when discussing unfolding revolutions in other countries is to offer programmatic analysis that has little to do with the real situation on the ground. Comrade Steve Bloom makes that mistake in regards to “the relationship between the democratic and the socialist revolutions”in Indonesia.
47. Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
48. The Socialist Register 1969
    Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
    
49. Taplok Press, A New Flame
    Against The Current vol. 89
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Reading Left books has become somewhat of a trend in Indonesia. Although the struggle for democracy is far from won, overthrowing the dictator Suharto in 1998 has brought a lot of positive changes for people. One of the most important changes is the ability to openly explore political ideas and the access to information.
50. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
51. Two Powerful Films on Indonesian Mass Terror
    Film Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Short review of two films about Indonesian genocide.
52. Under the Influence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    For the few of us who reported East Timor long before it was finally declared news, the "disclosures" last weekend that Washington had trained Indonesia's death squads are bizarre. That the American, British and Australian governments have underwritten proportionally the greatest savagery since the Holocaust has been a matter of unambiguous record for a quarter of a century. All it needed was reporting.
53. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
54. An Update on Indonesian Political Prisoners
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    AS INDONESIAN POLITICAL prisoners are released, evidence continues to surface that the United States CIA knew about the "disappearances" and tortures. In response to the mass protests that forced Suharto to step down, Indonesian trade union leader Muchtar Pakpahan and former Member of Parliament Sri Bintang were released from prison May 25. The new president Habibie has promised to review the anti-subversion law under which many of the political prisoners-including the Peoples Democratic...
    
55. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
56. We need to be told
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates.
57. Where Heaven Meets Hell
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
58. Where Is Indonesia Going?
    Against The Current vol. 87
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    For both admirers and critics of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, the picture is disturbing: At the presidential palace in Jakarta there are signs of a new “royal court” in the making. Officials converse in Javanese, not the national language Bahasa Indonesia; Wahid himself borrows from mysticism and ancient tracts to plot political strategy; and family and friends are acting as gatekeepers and facilitators, in some cases for businessmen hoping to curry favor. Some analysts describe it as a form of “benign Suhartoism,” a throwback to the disastrous last decade of President's 32-year rule.
59. WikiLeaks Copycat Reveals Indonesia's Bloody Secrets
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    On Friday, December 10th IndoLeaks, Indonesia’s very own version of WikiLeaks, went live. Over the following weeks the site has posted some sensitive documents including a conversation between former President Suharto and former US President Gerald Ford as well as four autopsy reports of the victims of the infamous 1965 coup attempt.
60. World Minorities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
    
61. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
62. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
63. You either believe in freedom or you don't
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    Speak out for human rights by joining the European Community and the majority of the United Nations in calling for a free East Timor.

Experts on Indonesien in the Sources Directory

1. Asian Civilisations Museum
2. Asian Development Bank
3. International Crisis Group
4. Partners in Population and Development
5. United Nations