The State of Knowledge about an Open Secret: Indonesia’s Mass Disappearances of 1965–66
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 [...]
