...Donald Hindley Abstract Prior to the October I, 1965 coup attempt, the leaders of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) controlled the largest Communist organization in any non-Communist state. The Party itself, with some three million members, was the center of a web of mass organizations claiming...

...-genocide (accessed March 13, 2016 ). Melvin Jessica . Forthcoming . Mechanics of Mass Murder: How the Indonesian Military Initiated and Implemented the Indonesian Genocide, the Case of Aceh . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press . Mun'im DZ H. Abdul . 2013 . Benturan NU-PKI, 1948...

... and with the Indonesian Commu- nist Party (PKI), which in this case had also been working closely with Sukarno. Mozingo points out that the PKI was then pursuing (paradoxically) a pro-Chinese, anti-superpower international policy while at the same time implementing a Soviet-line, peaceful-transition domestic policy...

... Communist Party (PKI) is both the oldest in Asia (it was founded on May 23, 1920) and the largest outside the Soviet bloc (its leaders currently claim two million Party members as well as over ten millions gathered in a wide range of mass organizations). Not surprisingly, the history of PKI 410 JOURNAL...

... military coup); the destruction of Indonesia's Communist Party (PKI), involving the deaths of hundreds of thousands; and the beginning of a generation of governance dominated by the military—have eluded adequate explanation by scholars and public commentators, Indonesian or otherwise. It is an exaggeration...

... of party strategy leading up to 1965, Roosa outlines an “original and creative attempt to neutralize the coercive power of the state” (p. 56) by infiltrating the army's rank and file. The Communist Party of Indonesia (Partai Komunis Indonesia, PKI) leaders became overconfident in the plan and were left...

... or hierarchical tendencies of the PKI. BALI AND THE INDONESIAN KILLINGS 779 political formation of the national Army remained active, particularly in the group known as LOGIS, which was outside the Indonesian state as it was constituted on Bali. Assassinations and robbery were normal, and were used by both sides...

... are the consequences, of the 1965 66 massacre in Indonesia of hundreds of thousands of communists and others affiliated with the communist party (PKI, Partai Komunis Indonesia) by military units and civilian vigilantes? This volume combines several papers by Australian scholars, first presented at conferences...

... (and its Ansor youth wing in particular) and the violence (Fealy and McGregor 2012 ; Hefner 1990 ), providing evidence of a systematic geographic association between their political strength and the severity of population loss. Rural regions where PKI support was high (and that for the NU was relatively...

... in August 1950 and linked to the PKI (Indonesian Communist party). Foulcher's starting point is that in post-1949 Indonesia there was a struggle for control of the nature and direction of the new state, which included a struggle within 422 T H E J O U R N A L OF ASIAN STUDIES the arts between what he terms...

... the outset, the Sukarno-Hatta government characterized it as a premeditated, Moscow-inspired coup designed to create a Soviet-style regime not just in Madiun but in Indonesia as a whole. This remains the official Indonesian government view today. The Communist Party (PKI, Partai Komunis Indonesia...

... recent reve- history; hundreds of thousands of Indonesians lations of covert American activities in similar were killed, and the PKI the largest non-ruling Third World situations, it occurs to me that a communist party in the world at the time was potentially fruitful subject for further scholarly...

.... The second, less often acknowledged, occurred over the months following the attempted military coup and took the form of a ferocious campaign of political propaganda and sexual slander against the women s af liate of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), Gerwani. In the account of the coup disseminated...

.... Two contributions deal with the Communist Party (PKI). Ruth McVey explains the appeal of the PKI to young people who lacked connections to the established elite. The party was seen as a "community" and recruitment was like 'religious conversion' to an organization which offered "Communism...

..., 1990). Kammen and McGregor's introduction sets the agenda for the volume and future studies of the killings. They argue that while much of the previous literature focuses either on the circumstances of the initial coup attempt, the attacks on the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia—PKI...

... and frustrating to read. The author is a man passionately committed; he views the history of the Indonesian republic as a struggle between Good and Evil, the former embodied in the socialist leader Sjahrir and former Vice President Hatta, the latter in Sukarno and the PKI. He is deeply distressed by the post...

... of information and relevant to topical events that the academic area specialist in contemporary politics is hard put to avoid chagrin over his own plodding attempts toward publication. As Indonesia's 1965 "coup," PKI deci- 738 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES mation and blood-bath fade rapidly before newer world news...

... to have two solid books on the Indonesian Communist party written prior to the coup of October 1965. Both of them deal primarily with the PKI as it developed in the postindependence period under the leadership of D. N. Aidit, but in spite of the similarity of topic and time they are very different studies...

... President Hatta, the latter in Sukarno and the PKI. He is deeply distressed by the post-revolutionary descent into the pit, and particularly by the role of the United States, which sold Indonesia's promising democracy down the river with the Korean truce "The situation in Asia, in the vital interest...

... declined by 4.4%, pKI vote increased by 7.2%, and the Masjumi/NU combined vote remained stable. While it appears that the 2.8 of the incresed PKI vote explaiinable by PNI decline came from the small non-Islamic parties, this proposition is presently being tested with village-level electoral date. 4...