In 1965 and '66 madness seized Indonesia. Half a million people were killed as the old president, Sukarno, lost power to a new one, Suharto. Thirty years later Suharto began to lose his grip. In this remarkable book, Richard Lloyd Parry, a young British journalist, takes us right into the centre of the maelstrom that tore Indonesia apart.
The violence began in Borneo, Dayaks against Madurese, and spread to Sumatra and East Timor. The Dayaks believe in magic, in cutting off and collecting the heads of their enemies, and in eating their hearts. (They also love English football: Man U and Spurs.) In Sumatra Lloyd Parry watches students demonstrating against Suharto and being shot down by the police. Jakarta is set alight and looters are everywhere. 1200 people are killed in Jakarta alone. Suharto eventually resigned in May 1998, but the violence continued.
When Lloyd Parry returned in the spring of 1999 there was fighting all over Indonesia, Muslims against Christians, East Timorese against Indonesian militias. In the jungle Lloyd Parry finds the Falantil guerillas who are fighting for independence, and he is there when the militias' violence escalates to massacre. His account has an extraordinary immediacy. You can smell the smoke, the blood, the fear.
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 365 g.; X, 326 pages, last 11 pages blank intentionally, acknowledgements. Black-and-white photographic cover with yellow and red titles to the front panel and backstrip. Creasing to the book corners and rubbing to all book edges. Light age toning of the text box edges and of the internal text. Colour photographs of the author to the verso of the rear book panel. The memoirs of the author who was reporting from Indonesia at the tail end of the Suharto regime. He found himself in the "Time of Madness" as the dictatorship fell and chaos and superstition replaced certainty. He found himself in Borneo where the natives went on a rampage of headhunting and cannibalism, a country where money had lost its value and both natural and man-made disasters flourished and finally to East Timor on the cusp of being independent. Size: Large Format Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Journalism; History -- Asia; ISBN: 0224075160. ISBN/EAN: 9780224075169. Inventory No: 0108454. Seller Inventory # 0108454
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