New book announcement: “Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia” by Vannessa Hearman

Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia, Vannessa Hearman (NUS Press, August 2018)
Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia, Vannessa Hearman (NUS Press, August 2018)

Drawing on interviews, archival records, and government and military reports, Vanessa Hearman traces the lives of a number of individuals, following their efforts to build a base for resistance in the South Blitar area of East Java, and their subsequent journeys into prisons and detention centres, or into hiding and a shadowy underground existence. She also provides a new understanding of relations between the army and its civilian supporters, many of whom belonged to Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama.

 

Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia
by Vannessa Hearman
NUS Press, August 2018 (ISBN 9789814722940)