Ninjas in Narratives of Local and National Violence in PostSuharto Indonesia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Foreword xv
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. Historical Memory in Contemporary Indonesia 1
8. PART ONE
9. My Life as a Shadow Master under Suharto 33
10. Kali: A Libretto 47
11. The Persistence of Evil and the Impossibility of Truth in Goenawan Mohamad's Kali 74
12. In Search of Memories How Malay Tales Try to Shape History 99
13. PART TWO
14. Collective Memories of the Qahhar Movement 121
15. Ninjas in Narratives of Local and National Violence in PostSuharto Indonesia 150
16. Remembering and Forgetting War and Revolution 168
17. PART THREE
18. Memory, Knowledge and Reform 193
19. Nugroho Notosusanto: The Legacy of a Historian in the Service of an Authoritarian Regime 209
20. The Battle for History After Suharto 233
21. PART FOUR
22. Lubang Buaya: Histories of Trauma and Sites of Memory 259
23. Material Witnesses: Photographs and the Making of Reformasi Memory 278
24. Monument, Document and Mass Grave: The Politics of Representing Violence in Bali 312
25. Dealing with the Past: Reflections on South Africa, East Timor and Indonesia 324
26. Bibliography 343
27. Index 371