The Jakarta Method

Vincent Bevins
Paperback, 352 pages
9781541724006

Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the largest Communist Party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring other copycat terror programs.

 
In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins draws from recently declassified documents, archival research, and eyewitness testimony to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it’s been believed that the developing world passed peacefully into the US-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington’s final triumph in the Cold War.

Contents
1 A New American Age
2 Independent Indonesia
3 Feet to the Fire, Pope in the Sky
4 An Alliance for Progress
5 To Brazil and Back
6 The September 30th Movement
7 Extermination
8 Around the World
9 Jakarta Is Coming
10 Back Up North
11 We Are the Champions
12 Where Are They Now? And Where Are We?
Appendix 1. Data Table: The World in 1960
Appendix 2. Data Table: The World Today
Appendix 3. Global Inequality: Chart One
Appendix 4. Global Inequality: Chart Two