Caldwell, Malcolm, ed. Ten Years' Military Terror in Indonesia.
Nottingham, England: Spokesman Books, 1975. 297 pages.
"I probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that's not all bad.
There's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment." So said
Robert J. Martens, formerly a political officer in the U.S. embassy in
Indonesia, as he described to reporter Kathy Kadane how U.S. diplomats and
CIA officers provided up to 5,000 names to Indonesian army death squads
in 1965, and checked them off as they were killed or captured. The death
toll reached a half million or so. Kadane's article was reprinted in the
San Francisco Examiner (1990-05-20) and the Washington Post (1990-05-21),
but soon the New York Times checked in with a damage control effort by
Michael Wines (1990-07-12), which proclaimed the end of the story.
Despite the NYT, some of us have not lost interest in the issue. This
book is a collection of essays on various aspects of the first ten years of
military rule in Indonesia. One contributor is Peter Dale Scott, who examines
American involvement in the coup in an essay that includes 139 end notes
(pages 209-261). Scott updated this research with new sources in the journal
Pacific Affairs (Summer 1985, pp. 239-264). His research on Indonesia also
triggered his book-length poem about terror titled "Coming to Jakarta" (New
York: New Directions Books, 1989, 160 pages). If Kadane and Scott have their
way, someday not only the CIA will know the full truth about Indonesia 1965.
ISBN 0-85124-143-3
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