#jakarta method

[katchwreck]

A comic, but based on historic reality:

[enter-the-darkness]

For the record, if you think AAPI folk being upset about appropriation is a fucking PSYOP you are honestly just a fragile little white bitch whose never actually been affected by a US PsyOp and it shows.

Sincerely,

An Indonesian whose Dad Was Chased Out of Indonesia due to American PsyOps

[system-of-a-feather]

OH. That checks.

(tw: increasingly aggressive venting about America)

I was wondering why I am having such relatively strong antisocial urges and need to just ruin everyones day "for no reason" and just remembered Riku has been reading up on how America literally mass murdered "Chinese Communists" put a militant dictator that filled our dads birth country with extreme corruption and capitalism to the point of an economic crash and 30~ years of aggressive extremist violence into the late 1990s.

Like its not a "trigger" perse of mine but it is the shit Im hyper aware of that fuels and contributes to my deep seeded trauma centered desire for the world to burn into a chaotic lawless apocolypse.

Like I don't ACTUALLY want it cause logically I know that as much as it would seem fun and an ideal for >just me< its not actual happiness and joy and would just end up in all the others in this body being miserable

But like, yeah remembering Im living in a country I detest and don't see getting better through non-violent means - yeah that wpuld set off my symptomatic urge to see people be mad and start fires.

*sigh* Maybe I should brush up on Spanish and move to Spain or something so I can live in a country that isnt a putrid bad joke

Like literally uwu Russia is doing war crimes ignore that we bombed a hospital. UwU Middle easterns are doing [insert islamophobia] ignore that we supported and aided basically a genocide on communists in a country we dont belong in by pointing at Chinese people uwu

Literally there are people who say they complain about America cause they want it to be better but honestly, I 100% just hate this country. Vehmently. There is not a single thing I like about this country and anyone who likes anything about this country

(for the indonesia china stuff just look up Sino-Indonesian relations, Sukarno and Suharto for a general summary of the crap)

Literally if you have any shred of positive emotion towards America, Im sorry but I (as a part) specifically hate you.

Straight facts. Patriotism disgusts me. There is literally nothing about being an American to be proud of.

-XIV

[synthdiary]

Back on the horse.

So, I had things going good for a while. I was working on art every day, I was studying languages every day, I was cooking every day, I was walking most days. I was reading a lot. Then I got promoted and things kind of spiraled out of control and I haven't been doing those things that I want to do. So, maybe this is an accountability diary or something so I can get back to those things, which somehow constitute as self care for me.

Language learning:

I'm committing to trying to study on my lunches at work. My activity for tomorrow will be: Reading Poemo de Utnoa in Esperanto. This is an epic poem about the biblical flood, but with ancient aliens and other Scifi elements added in. I wanted to start today but I couldn't so here we are.

Activism:

I did some clerical tasks for the project I work on, including getting approval for the next print run of our newspaper. For some reason I felt a lot of anxiety doing this, perhaps its because the price for printing seems to have gone up a lot since the last issue. These are the realities of dealing with inflation.

Reading:

Today was the day for the book club that I run, always kind of nerve wracking to prepare, not helped by the fact that I needed to finish reading the last chapter of this month's book, which was the Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. The meeting went well, here is what I put on goodreads about this book:

This is a book which everyone should read, but it is a difficult book to read. The details of this book are soul crushing and disturbing but it is something everyone should know. One thing I really appreciate about this book is its focus on survivor testimony. It is often the case when we hear about an atrocity, we cannot grasp the humanity of its victims. This book, thru interviews, completely avoids that problem allowing/forcing the reader to understand the victims as something other than a statistic.

This month the book club will be reading 2 versions of Beowulf--Feminist Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley (I'll probably call it "Bro Beowulf" going forward) and Irish Post-colonial Beowulf by Seamus Heaney (Likely called "So Beowulf" going forward). I started reading "Bro Beowulf" today just to get a headstart... In addition to these two books there's also a fiction book I would like to finish reading before December. 3 is normally fully possible for me but I only read the one in October. I only managed to get thru the introduction today tho

Goals for Tomorrow

Grocery shopping

Make dinner

Catch Bus

Keep reading

Start doing language study on my lunch breaks

[thoughtportal]

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World is a 2020 political history book by American journalist and author Vincent Bevins. It concerns U.S. government support for and complicity in anti-communist mass killings around the world and their aggregate consequences from the Cold War until the present era. The title is a reference to Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, during which an estimated one million people were killed in an effort to destroy the political left and movements for government reform in the country.

The book goes on to describe subsequent replications of the strategy of mass murder, against government reform and economic reform movements in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere.[1][2] The killings in Indonesia by the American-backed Indonesian forces were so successful in culling the left and economic reform movements that the term "Jakarta" was later used to refer to the genocidal aspects of similar later plans implemented by other authoritarian capitalist regimes with the assistance of the United States.[3][4]

[momxijinping]

By 1965, the PKI had three million party members – adding a million members in the year. It had emerged as a serious political force in Indonesia, despite the anti-communist military’s attempts to squelch its growth. Membership in its mass organizations went up to 18 million. A strange incident – the killing of three generals in Jakarta – set off a massive campaign, helped along by the CIA and Australian intelligence, to excise the communists from Indonesia. Mass murder was the order of the day. The worst killings were in East Java and in Bali. Colonel Sarwo Edhie’s forces, for instance, trained militia squads to kill communists. ‘We gave them two or three days’ training,’ Sarwo Edhie told journalist John Hughes, ‘then sent them out to kill the communists.’ In East Java, one eyewitness recounted, the prisoners were forced to dig a grave, then ‘one by one, they were beaten with bamboo clubs, their throats slit, and they were pushed into the mass grave’. By the end of the massacre, a million Indonesian men and women of the left were sent to these graves. Many millions more were isolated, without work and friends. Aidit was arrested by Colonel Yasir Hadibroto, brought to Boyolali (in Central Java) and executed. He was 42. There was no way for the world communist movement to protect their Indonesian comrades. The USSR’s reaction was tepid. The Chinese called it a ‘heinous and diabolical’ crime. But neither the USSR nor China could do anything. The United Nations stayed silent. The PKI had decided to take a path that was without the guns. Its cadre could not defend themselves. They were not able to fight the military and the anti-communist gangs. It was a bloodbath.

Red Star Over the Third World Vijay Prashad, November 2017

The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement. Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren’t paying close attention to what happened in Guatemala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world’s largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious consequences. This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask: “Who was right?” In Guatemala, was it Árbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party? Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit’s unarmed party didn’t survive. Allende’s democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington. Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins, 2020

[thereadingmoon]

naw, not world war z having a palestinian say “all i thought about israelis my entire life was wrong” and the head of CIA say “the two biggest assumptions about the CIA is that we monitor the world for any threat against america and we have the power to do it”

mr brooks, the third world would like to have a fucking word

[lungfuls]

Reading Eileen. So far do like it better than MYoR&R

[southeastasianhistories]

Excerpts from The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins

[emptyanddark]

Footnote from Bevins, Vincent. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. PublicAffairs, 2020.

[lovnelymoon]

I started another book to read so I won't finish the handmaid's tale too quickly. It's just too good

[myrfing]

man.

[aurazoo]

okay time to read and come up with group discussion questions all day

[tiixij]

got a copy of american psycho today btw

[ikeameatballspoisonedme]

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