The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful.

In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.


Author: Vincent Bevins
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 04/27/2021
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781541724006
ISBN10: 1541724003
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Genocide & War Crimes
- History | Asia | Southeast Asia
- History | Latin America | South America

About the Author
Vincent Bevins is an award-winning journalist. He covered Southeast Asia for the Washington Post, based in Jakarta, after serving as Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and working at the Financial Times in London. He is also the author of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. Vincent lives in S?o Paulo.