by JOHN ROOSA IN A SCENE IN the genre-bending documentary film The Act of Killing (2012), a journalist, Soaduon Siregar, claims to have a sudden insight while standing in a film studio. Having just watched two executioners reenact their deeds of 1965–66 before a camera, he realizes why he had never known that they [...]
John Roosa Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Fifty years of denials, evasions, and silences. Among the genocides of the twentieth century, the Indonesian genocide is perhaps the least under understood. It remains shrouded in obfuscations and mystifications, such that the identities of the perpetrators and victims have become wildly [...]
John Roosa* Lima puluh tahun penyangkalan , penghindaran dan kesenyapan. Dari sekian banyak genosida abad ke dua puluh, genosida yang terjadi di Indonesia mungkin yang paling sedikit dipahami. Peristiwa ini tetap terbungkus dalam upaya pengkaburan dan mistifikasi yg disengaja, sedemikian rupa sehingga siapa yang menjadi pelaku dan siapa yang menjadi korban telah dicampur adukkan [...]
