Sunday, October 9, 2022

Time to shift our focus on Indonesian communist studies?

 


The “communist” label, inherited from Suharto’s era, has become a traditional part of the Indonesian “political repertoire”. The great irony is that the more the authoritarian regime establishes a categorical interconnection with latent threats and the definition of an Indonesian communist, the more unclear they become. 

My latest op-ed published in New Mandala. See here

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