1965 Communist Purge in Indonesia: U.S. Foreign Relations in Indonesia

  • Miner, Brian
Publication date
January 2018
Publisher
The University of Iowa
Language
English

Abstract

This thesis investigates the Unites States’ policy in Indonesia and the U.S. government’s response to the massacre of up to one million Indonesians who were labeled communists by ant-communist forces in Indonesia in 1965-1966. The U.S. knew at the time that mass murder was occurring in the archipelago nation. However, President Lyndon B. Johnson and his administration kept silent in addition to providing covert support for the perpetrators of one of the worst massacres of the twentieth century. Through this support, the United States helped topple the incumbent Indonesian President Sukarno and his anti-Western policies, and welcomed the coup leader—General Suharto and his anti-Communist authoritarian regime that ruled Indonesia until 1998. ...

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