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Confronting the Past in Contemporary Indonesia: The Anticommunist Killings of 1965-66 and the Role of the Nahdlatul Ulama (McGregor, 2009)
Confronting the Past: the anticommunist killings of 1965-66 and the role of Nahdlatul Ulama (McGregor, 2009)
Katharine McGregor's 2009 article on NU's support for the 1965-66 killings (e.g. its 5 Oct 1965 call to ban the PKI, Gerwani and others), their celebration under the New Order and Syarikat's post-1998 reconciliation work. Context on religious-organisation role.
Artikel Katharine McGregor 2009 tentang dukungan NU atas pembunuhan 1965-66 (misalnya seruan 5 Okt 1965 melarang PKI, Gerwani dan lainnya), perayaannya di masa Orde Baru dan kerja rekonsiliasi Syarikat pasca-1998. Konteks peran organisasi keagamaan.
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- Date
- 2009
- Creator
- McGregor
- Document type
- journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (history and memory politics; archival, interview and NGO-publication based))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Taylor & Francis via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Taylor & Francis Online, Critical Asian Studies 41(2), DOI 10.1080/14672710902809351; library-licensed download (cover sheet indicates T&F access terms; no open-access licence shown). Retrieved 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- McGregor, K. E. (2009). Confronting the past in contemporary Indonesia: The anticommunist killings of 1965–66 and the role of the Nahdlatul Ulama. Critical Asian Studies, 41(2), 195–224. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672710902809351
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/McGregor (2009) - Confronting the Past in Contemporary Indonesia, The Anticommunist Killings of 1965-66 and the Role of the Nahdlatul Ulama.pdf
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- Good (0.942) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
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- condensed from full annotation
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