66 Comments on “Anti Communist Massacres”

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1. dewaratugedeanom Says:
   February 7th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

   @spew-it-all

   Did John Roosa (Pretext for Mass Murder), or any of the other researchers, mention something about an eventual involvement or reaction from the PHDI (Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia) or its predecessor in Bali? The fierceness of the massacres in Bali raises the suspicion that some higher religious authority might have been backing or at least condoning.

2. Janma Says:
   February 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

   Ida Bagus Oka told them it was a ‘holy war’ … that because of PKI the light and dark (sekala niskala) was out of balance, so it was their duty to kill them all….. this after quite a few months of the army and various others from Java trying to stir them up, apparently the balinese were quite hard to start up on the massacres but after started were hard to stop.

3. spew-it-all Says:
   February 11th, 2008 at 6:22 am

   Dewa,

   I don’t think i remember that. The only scholar who focuses his work on Bali is Geoffrey Robinson. Roosa’s work is mainly centring the link between the failed coup and the mass murder.
   It would be possible if any religious authority such PHDI took that position. At that time, people had to fiercely censure the PKI in order to prove to the public which position that they took.

4. Odinius Says:
   February 11th, 2008 at 10:09 am

   @Adrian…love “A Paradise Created.” Glad to see an “authentic Indonesianist” on here.

   Keeping on the Bali theme, I I thought I should throw Geoff Robinson’s “The Dark Side of Paradise” into the mix. Pretty interesting findings there about 1965-7: 80,000 killed (the largest proportion of any province’s population), most of whom were either not or only loosely affiliated with the PKI and were targeted more for general leftism or anti-traditionalism in Hindu religious practice. And it happened relatively late in the game after the military sent Col. Sarwo Edhie’s to make sure Bali didn’t skip the bloodletting…

5. dewaratugedeanom Says:
   February 11th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

   The funny thing is that in 2002 the PHDI (Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia) has been accused on Denpasar’s official website http://www.visitdenpasar.com of trying to spread communism in Bali because they wanted to reform the caste system that still exists on the ceremonial level.
   It seems that even in these days any attempt to modernise the social fabric in this country still can be discredited by sticking the label ‘communist’ to it.

6. Odinius Says:
   February 12th, 2008 at 4:52 am

   Wow, that’s interesting. Funny, I was in Wanosobo for the 2004 election and saw these massive banners saying “Wanosobo: proud and free of Communism.” WTF?! I figured red baiting was old hat after the wall fell and China rediscovered capitalism…

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