Dadang Christanto

Category: journalist/writer/artist
Nationality: Indonesian
Also written as: Dadang Christanto

2018 – 2026

2 items

GA-02912 2018 rel A

The Indonesian Genocide of 1965: Causes, Dynamics and Legacies (McGregor, Melvin and Pohlman, eds., 2018)

The Indonesian Genocide of 1965: Causes, Dynamics and Legacies (McGregor, Melvin, Pohlman, eds., 2018)

Edited volume (Palgrave 2018; McGregor, Melvin, Pohlman) arguing the 1965 violence was genocidal, covering causes (Aceh army documents, Bali, Pohlman on women's testimonies of sexual violence in West Sumatra) and legacies. Key scholarship on 1965 violence.

GA-03032 2026 rel C licensed

Counter-Monuments: Art and Memory in Post-1965 Indonesia

Counter-Monuments: Art and Memory in Post-1965 Indonesia (Bontrager, 2026)

MA thesis (University of Georgia, 2026) by Alyx L. Bontrager on how Indonesian artists Rangga Purbaya, Dadang Christanto and Leyla Stevens use testimony, embodiment and place as memory activism against the silencing of the 1965-66 genocide, theorised as 'counter-monuments'. Gerwani appears only in passing: ch. 2 (p. 7)