Infrastructures of Impunity

New Order Violence in Indonesia

Elizabeth F. Drexler

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Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University
15 December 2023

Genocide & ethnic cleansing; Ethnic studies; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship; War crimes

Series: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project

In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965-66) is not only a legal status, but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political, educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always work at once-at times some are dormant while others are ascendant-together they can be described as a unified entity, a dynamic infrastructure, whose existence explains the persistence of impunity. For instance, truth telling, a first step in many responses to state violence, did not undermine the infrastructure, but instead bent to it. Creative and artistic responses to revelations about the past, however, have begun to undermine the infrastructure, by countering its temporality, affect, social stigmatization and demonstrating its contingency and specific actions, policies and processes that would begin to dismantle it. Drexler contends an infrastructure of impunity could take hold in an established democracy.

By: Elizabeth F. Drexler
Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9781501773099
ISBN 10: 1501773097
Series: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 15 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth F. Drexler is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of Aceh, Indonesia.