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Indonesian government approved new criminal code forbidding everything from sex outside marriage to cohabitation before marriage. Will it affect tourism?

The U.K. ran a propaganda campaign in the mid-1960s urging that the “communist cancer be cut out of the body of the state.”

Declassified documents reveal how in 1965 a dirty tricks arm of the Foreign Office incited massacres that left thousands dead

At the start of October 1965, a U.S.-aided and abetted military coup overthrew Indonesia's left-leaning Sukarno government. Not just an account of that tragic episode and the subsequent slaughter of a million or more actual and alleged communists and the horrific imprisonment of another million, veteran journalist Vincent Bevins' (The Jakarta Method} is something far more.

Counterpunch Historian John Roosa’s meticulously researched Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia focuses on events leading up to and during the months of slaughter, with extensive testimony from survivor interviews which Roosa and a team of Indonesian researchers conducted over several decades. In The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World, journalist Vincent Bevins shows connections between the I...