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The International People's Tribunal on 1965 Crimes against Humanity in Indonesia (Wieringa, 2017)

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Wieringa's 2017 insider account, as chair of the IPT 1965 foundation, of the tribunal's rationale, genesis (a 2013 meeting with Oppenheimer, Stanley Prasetyo and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana), structure and July 2016 conclusions. Background on the tribunal's organisation.

Kisah orang dalam Wieringa 2017, sebagai ketua yayasan IPT 1965, tentang dasar pemikiran tribunal, asal-usulnya (pertemuan 2013 dengan Oppenheimer, Stanley Prasetyo dan Nursyahbani Katjasungkana), struktur dan kesimpulan Juli 2016. Latar organisasi tribunal.

People

Saskia WieringaJoshua OppenheimerStanley PrasetyoNursyahbani KatjasungkanaZak YacoobTodung Mulya LubisSilke Studzinsky

Organisations

International People's Tribunal 1965Tokyo Women's International War Crimes Tribunal

Places

The HagueJakartaTokyo

Events

International People's Tribunal 1965

Topics

memory, testimony and justicekillings 1965–66Lubang Buaya and sexual slander

Tags

eyewitness accountcourt record

Details

Date
2017
Creator
Wieringa
Document type
book chapter (book chapter (edited volume on peoples' tribunals; participant-observer account))
Language
English; Indonesian
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
UK
Period
1999–present
Source archive
Cambridge Core via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
Access
Cambridge Core (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108368360.006), 'Published online by Cambridge University Press' footer; library-licensed chapter PDF [open-access status not indicated]; annotated 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
Citation (APA)
Wieringa, S. E. (2017). The International People's Tribunal on 1965 crimes against humanity in Indonesia: An anthropological perspective. In A. Byrnes & G. Simm (Eds.), Peoples' tribunals and international law (pp. 107–132). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108368360.006 [editors, book title and year inferred from the DOI and the chapter's cross-references; print edition usually dated 2018; verify]
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Wieringa (2017) - The International People's Tribunal on 1965 Crimes against Humanity in Indonesia.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.962) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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