Memory culture of the anti-leftist violence in Indonesia : embedded remembering / Grace T. Leksana.

This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents the complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are not exclusively determined by the state's repressive memory project, but are actually embedded in intricate social relations and local context where the violence occurred. What people remember, forget, or actively repress is part of the continuous negotiation of one's rights, relationship with the state, and identity as an Indonesian citizen. This book redefines the politics of memory - that it does not necessarily appear in formal arenas, but actually lies in the complex web of local dynamics, often involving transactional and clientelistic practices.