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The Act Of Killing - Review, Robert Cribb Mar 2014

The Act Of Killing - Review, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Critically reviews Joshua Oppenheimer's celebrated film The Act of Killing. Suggests that the film appears to have been staged in sigificant places and that it gives a misleading impression of the character of the 1965-66 killings, especially by downplaying the role of the military in order to emphasise the psychopathic character of Anwar Congo and his friends.


The Incredible Shrinking Pancasila: Nationalist Propaganda And The Missing Ideological Legacy Of Suharto, Robert Cribb Jan 2010

The Incredible Shrinking Pancasila: Nationalist Propaganda And The Missing Ideological Legacy Of Suharto, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Although President Suharto dominated Indonesian politics for more than three decades, and although Indonesians spent millions of hours under his regime mastering the principles of the national ideology, Pancasila, remarkable little remains of his ideological legacy.


Genocide In Indonesia, 1965-1966, Robert Cribb Jan 2010

Genocide In Indonesia, 1965-1966, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


Nature Conservation And Cultural Preservation In Convergence: Orang Pendek And Papuans In Colonial Indonesia, Robert Cribb Jan 2009

Nature Conservation And Cultural Preservation In Convergence: Orang Pendek And Papuans In Colonial Indonesia, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


A Genocide That Never Was: Explaining The Myth Of Anti-Chinese Massacres In Indonesia, 1965–66, Robert Cribb Jan 2009

A Genocide That Never Was: Explaining The Myth Of Anti-Chinese Massacres In Indonesia, 1965–66, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Many publications refer incorrectly to extensive massacres of Chinese in Indonesia in 1965–66. Approximately half a million people were killed in this period, but the victims wereoverwhelmingly members and associates of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). Chinese Indonesians experienced serious harassment but relatively few were killed. The persistence of this myth is attributed to a trope dating back to the seventeenth century which equates the social position of Chinese in Indonesia with that of Jews in Europe and which thus predicts periodic pogroms and attempts at genocide. The myth has survived partly because it inspires a sense of urgency in …


Indonesia As An Archipelago: Managing Islands, Managing The Seas, Robert Cribb, Michele Ford Dec 2008

Indonesia As An Archipelago: Managing Islands, Managing The Seas, Robert Cribb, Michele Ford

Robert Cribb

Indonesia's archipelagic character shapes its identity.


Region, Academic Dynamics And Promise Of Comparativism, Robert Cribb Jan 2006

Region, Academic Dynamics And Promise Of Comparativism, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Argues for setting Southeast Asia in a broach comparative studies framework.


Unresolved Problems In The Indonesian Killings Of 1965-1966, Robert Cribb Jun 2002

Unresolved Problems In The Indonesian Killings Of 1965-1966, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


Paradijsvogels Op Nieuw-Guinea: Een Pootloos Modeartikel, Robert Cribb Oct 1997

Paradijsvogels Op Nieuw-Guinea: Een Pootloos Modeartikel, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


Women's Role In The Indonesian Revolution: Some Historical Reflections, Anton Lucas, Robert Cribb Jan 1997

Women's Role In The Indonesian Revolution: Some Historical Reflections, Anton Lucas, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


Democracy, Self-Determination And The Indonesian Revolution, Robert Cribb Jan 1996

Democracy, Self-Determination And The Indonesian Revolution, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


The Indonesian Killings Of 1965-1966: Studies From Java And Bali, Robert Cribb Jan 1991

The Indonesian Killings Of 1965-1966: Studies From Java And Bali, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


Problems In The Historiography Of The Killings In Indonesia, Robert Cribb Dec 1990

Problems In The Historiography Of The Killings In Indonesia, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


Jakarta: Cooperation And Resistance In An Occupied City, Robert Cribb Jan 1985

Jakarta: Cooperation And Resistance In An Occupied City, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Jakarta became Indonesia's capital upon the declaration of independence in August 1945, but the city was soon occupied by British forces, who permitted a gradual re-establishment of Dutch control. The city remained formally the capital, but the most administration moved to Yogyakarta. The Republican city hall, Balai Agung, attempted to maintain the Republic's presence. After the Dutch military action of July 1947, the Balai Agung was removed, but nationalists in Jakarta contrinued to make life difficult for Dutch authorities.


Elections In Jakarta, Robert Cribb Jun 1984

Elections In Jakarta, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.