Buku ini menyajikan catatan reflektif dari perjalanan sepuluh tahun Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center (PYC). Perjalanan satu dasawarsa ini dikemas ke dalam beberapa fase penting yang dinamis. Melalui lembar demi lembar buku ini, pembaca akan diajak untuk menapak tilas bagaimana PYC membangun langkah awalnya, menghadapi berbagai tantangan yang mendewasakan, hingga akhirnya melangkah lebih jauh ke ranah…
Bersaksi di Tengah Badai: Dari Catatan Wiranto Jenderal Purnawirawan adalah buku memoar dan refleksi politik yang diterbitkan oleh Institute for Democracy of Indonesia (IDe Indonesia) pada tahun 2003. Buku ini menyajikan catatan pribadi Jenderal TNI (Purn.) Wiranto mengenai detik-detik krisis runtuhnya Orde Baru hingga masa transisi kepresidenan.
Indonesia is an enigma to outside observers, who have never seemed sure just what it is: Islamic, authoritarian, democratic, developing, disintegrating. The largest country in its region, Indonesia holds the key to Southeast Asia’s future, while recent developments—demands for greater regional autonomy, ethnic, political and religious conflict—are making the archipelago significant on the…
Riwayat hidup dan cinta Heldy Djafar, perempuan terakhir yang dinikahi Bung Karno di penghujung masa kekuasaannya. Siapa sesungguhnya Heldy yang kemudian juga memiliki hubungan dengan Keluarga Cendana? Buku ini menarik karena berisi kisah cinta seorang perempuan belia dengan ”orang besar” yang lebih layak menjadi ayahnya. Percintaan terjadi dalam pusaran sejarah di senjakalasebuah orde yang…
Drawing on little known archival sources, this work brings to the fore the salience of a schism in the Indonesian communist movement between pro-Moscow loyalists and “national-communists” reaching back to the 1920s, which survived even the Japanese occupation and surfaced in the throes of the National Revolution (1945–49). At the heart of the rift lay contrasting visions of revolutionary …
Contesting Indonesia explains Islamist, separatist and communal violence across Indonesian history since 1945. In a sweeping argument that connects endemic violence to a national narrative, Kirsten E. Schulze finds that the outbreak of violence is related to competing local notions of the national imaginary as well as contentious belonging. Through detailed examination of six case studies: t…
In the 20th century, the U.S. government's effort to contain communism resulted in several disastrous conflicts: Vietnam, Cuba, Korea. Violence in Indonesia, and then interconnected slaughters across Latin America, arguably had a bigger hand in shaping today's world, but have been widely overlooked for one important reason: the secret CIA interventions were successful. In 1965, nearly one milli…