Jakarta Crackdown
31 December 1996 7:00 pm

{mosimage}The riots that rocked Jakarta on 27 July 1996, and the political events preceding and after that date, have left deep wounds in the Indonesian society. The Incident has been used as a trigger to prompt a crackdown on pro-democracy activists. This book is an overview of how development of a political discourse on democractisation in Indonesia tends to favour physical violence over democratic realities.