GA-02970 2014 relevance C licensed / copyrighted
Missing Victims of the 1965-66 Violence in Indonesia: Representing Impunity On-screen in The Act of Killing (Hearman, 2014)
Missing Victims of the 1965-66 Violence: Representing Impunity On-screen in The Act of Killing (Hearman, 2014)
Vannessa Hearman's 2014 reflection on the absence of victims in The Act of Killing, concluding that this dominance of perpetrators vividly shows impunity and its continued narrative. Context on film and advocacy.
Refleksi Vannessa Hearman 2014 tentang absennya korban dalam The Act of Killing, menyimpulkan dominasi pelaku itu menunjukkan impunitas dan narasi pelaku yang masih dominan. Konteks film dan advokasi.
People
Organisations
Places
Topics
Tags
Details
- Date
- 2014
- Creator
- Hearman
- Document type
- journal article (journal article (short film commentary in a roundtable on The Act of Killing))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Taylor & Francis via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Critical Asian Studies 46(1), 2014, Taylor & Francis (tandfonline.com), DOI 10.1080/14672715.2014.863586. Library-licensed access (not marked open access). Retrieved 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Hearman, V. (2014). "Missing victims" of the 1965–66 violence in Indonesia: Representing impunity on-screen in The Act of Killing. Critical Asian Studies, 46(1), 171–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2014.863586
- File
- 02 Secondary Sources/2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism/Hearman (2014) - Missing Victims of the 1965-66 Violence in Indonesia, Representing Impunity On-screen in The Act of Killing.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.938) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
Related items
Tempo, 1 October 2012: Testimonies from a republic of thugs (The Act of Killing)
Tempo package (1 Oct 2012) on The Act of Killing: Ariel Heryanto's review calling it the most important film on Indonesia, and a profile of Anwar Congo (Medan, Pemuda Pancasila) with his wife Salmah and Joshua Oppenheimer's comments. It stresses perpetrators' impunity and ties to officials. Gerwani is not mentioned.
shared: Joshua Oppenheimer, Medan, impunity, film
Tempo, 1 October 2012: From the confessions of 1965 executioners
Tempo column (1 Oct 2012) arguing that reconciliation must start from perpetrators' confession. Discusses victim-count disputes (78,000 to 3 million), The Act of Killing and Anwar Congo, Gus Dur's apology versus NU refusals, the Palu mayor's apology, and calls for lifting the ban on Marxism. Gerwani is not mentioned.
shared: Joshua Oppenheimer, Medan, impunity, film
Buru Island: Still Much More to Reveal (Hearman, 2020)
Hearman's review essay (Archipel 99, 2020) of the documentary Pulau Buru: Tanah Air Beta (2016), in which Hersri Setiawan and Tejabayu Soedjojono return to Buru, with Ita Nadia and Ken Setiawan. Context on Buru and its memory.
shared: Vannessa Hearman, film, review, art, literature and music
Tempo, 1 October 2012: 'I often carried a long axe' - introduction to the special edition on 1965 executioners
Editor's introduction (Tempo, 1 Oct 2012) to the special edition on 1965 executioners, prompted by The Act of Killing and Anwar Congo. It sets out the aims (view from perpetrators, Banality of Evil, verification of sources), mentions Sikka, Palembang and the camps at Buru, Plantungan and Moncongloe as an Indonesian Gul
shared: Joshua Oppenheimer, Medan, impunity, killings 1965–66
Persisting Silence: Sexual Slander, Mass Murder and The Act of Killing (Wieringa, 2014)
Wieringa (2014) uses The Act of Killing to argue Indonesian indifference to the film reflects the enduring success of the military's sexual moral panic against communism; discusses a director's-cut scene and levels of silence about Gerwani. Memory and silence.
shared: Joshua Oppenheimer, Medan, film, art, literature and music
The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Robinson, 2018)
Geoffrey Robinson's 2018 synthesis of the 1965-66 violence (about 500,000 killed, a million detained), arguing the army provoked and organised it, the US and allies facilitated it, and colonial and Cold War history set the preconditions. Context; Gerwani in the propaganda chapters.
shared: Joshua Oppenheimer, impunity, killings 1965–66
Between Citizenship and Human Rights: the struggle for justice after the 1965 violence (Hearman, 2018)
Hearman's 2018 article on how 1965 survivors and NGOs shifted from an inclusive citizenship strategy (1998-2004) to a 'boomerang' appeal to international norms, with stalled domestic justice. Context on the post-1998 struggle for justice.
shared: Vannessa Hearman, impunity, killings 1965–66
1965, the hour of history (Margolin, Archipel, 2020)
Jean-Louis Margolin's 47-page review essay (Archipel 99, 2020, in French) on the 'new historiography' of 1965 through eight books, summarising findings on army-militia cooperation, NU/Ansor, sexual violence and prisons, and critiquing Melvin and Robinson.
shared: Vannessa Hearman, review, killings 1965–66