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Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup: The Untold Story.

Publication: Contemporary Southeast Asia
Publication Date: 01-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup: The Untold Story.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup: The Untold Story. By Helen-Louise Hunter. Westport CT: Praeger Security International, 2007. Hardcover: 201pp.

This book ought to have been published with two warnings. First, in all its 201 pages, there is not a single footnote, bibliographical reference or specification of a source. Remarkably, Helen-Louise Hunter and Praeger publishers offer the reader a narrative of the tangled and immensely significant events in Indonesia in 1965--an abortive coup whose suppression cleared the way for the overthrow of President Soekarno, the rise to power of General Soeharto and the destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)--that is completely without the usual apparatus of scholarly accountability.

The second warning would have partly explained the first: this is not a new piece of scholarship at all. Rather it is a slightly reworked version of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intelligence report which was released in December 1968 with the title "Indonesia--1965: The...

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