The Jakarta Method

The Jakarta Method is a 2020 non-fiction book by American journalist and writer Vincent Bevins. It concerns American support for the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, during which an estimated one million communists, suspected communists, Chinese Indonesians, and others were killed, and subsequent replications of the strategy in Latin America and elsewhere.[1][2] The killings in Indonesia by the American-backed Indonesian forces were so successful in culling communism that the term "Jakarta" was later used to refer to the genocidal aspects of similar, later plans.[3]

The Jakarta Method
AuthorVincent Bevins
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
2020
Media typePrint (Hardback)

Reception

According to literary review aggregator Lit Hub, the book received mostly "Rave" reviews.[4]

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References
  1. Bevins, Vincent (29 May 2020). "Opinion | The 'Liberal World Order' Was Built With Blood". The New York Times.
  2. Pagliarini, Andre (5 June 2020). "Where America Developed a Taste for State Violence". The New Republic. The New Republic. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  3. "Lifting the veil on 1965 mass murder of Indonesian communists". South China Morning Post. South China Morning Post. 28 June 2020.
  4. "The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World". Book Marks. Literary Hub. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
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