A genealogy of violence / Henk Schulte Nordholt -- Telling tales, cutting throats / Henk M.J. Maier -- State violence and the police in colonial Indonesia circa 1920 / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten -- Generalized violence / Erwiza Erman -- Violence on North Sumatra's plantations / Budi Agustono -- Shadows of an unseen hand / William H. Frederick -- In fear of the people / R.E. Elson -- It's the military, stupid! / Liem Soei Liong -- From total people's defence to massacre / Robert Cribb -- The fruitless search for a smoking gun / Geoffrey Robinson -- The good, the bad and the ugly / Kees van Dijk -- Maling, maling! / Freek Colombijn
Notes
"The chapters in this volume were first presented as papers at a workshop called 'Violence in Indonesia : its historical roots and its contemporary manifestations', Leiden, 13-15 December 2000'"--Preface
