There were just “too many skulls, too many skeletons.” (Bevins 2020: 150)Īlit never did find his father. Maybe that one? They kept sorting through decomposing bodies, desperately, for minutes, before someone realized it was impossible, crazy. As they sifted through the human remains,īut no, that skull didn’t look right. On the beach they instead found a tangle of bodies, still piled on the shore all these years later. The tragedy of his father’s death was compounded by the lack of proper funeral and cremation, and Alit and his family hoped to rectify the matter. As beneficiaries of US hegemony, it is important to recognize this gap in collective memory and the responsibilities we have.Few years after a military junta took power in Indonesia in 1965, Agung Alit went looking for his father’s body on a beach in Bali. As Bevins writes, this series of events was instrumental in shaping our global economic system as it exists today. It was an apocalyptic slaughter of leftists and accused leftists.

In 19, the Indonesian military killed one million civilians and with praise and enthusiasm from the American government. They wanted to honor those who died and survived the mass extermination in Indonesia while also weaving our own understanding as young Muslims of the world into this episode.īevins book Jakarta Method is an accessible must-read about the United State's role in constructing a global anti-communist network. Nashwa and Shaadie approached this episode with the thought and care they approach other work with. In this episode Shaadie and Nashwa interview Vincent Bevins, author of the Jakarta Method. One where extermination programs and coups are staples.

One where vaccine apartheid is normalized for so many. This episode takes a look at how the world we all now came to be. It feels eerily familiar for people who straddle worlds to be aware that “back to normal” means back to normal for people completely detached from the global reality of how COVID continues to ravage people outside of the imperial core. Global vaccine apartheid continues to exist and it seems that only those in North America with relations outside of North America or to communities. The austerity measures that were first implemented during the pandemic will not ease post-pandemic.

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