Death of the Wayang A story of Indonesia

By Robert Harding
Published by Dailey Swan Publishing, Inc
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Published: Dec. 21, 2012
Words: 54,051 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781938862328

Short description

For five hundred years the Indonesians had been repressed, colonized and trampled: The Spanish, the Dutch, the English, the Dutch again, the Japanese, the Dutch again, and then finally by one of their own, Sukarno. And then they just had enough. The entire country went amok. 1 million died. This time the good guys won, but it was no game. Fast forward to today. And The Moslem World is on fire.

Extended description

I lived for a year in Indonesia and fell in love with the people, the language, and the culture. The Indonesians value their spirit of refinement and call it being halus. For most or all of their lives, they go about their genteel lives immersed in their culture, their art, and their land, until something or somebody causes them to snap. Almost every American knows one Indonesian word, amok, as in to run amok. While few people are as cultured and halus as the Indonesians, they are unmatched when it comes to running amok. When an Indonesian man has had enough, when he has lost his job, when he has lost his house, when he can no longer provide for his family, he takes his curvy-bladed Keris and runs screaming into the street slashing and killing until he himself is killed.
After being in the country for a time, I realized there were times when you would see the older people off by themselves, whispering, backs turned and heads together. It took time and trust, but after a while they.. (Read more) I lived for a year in Indonesia and fell in love with the people, the language, and the culture. The Indonesians value their spirit of refinement and call it being halus. For most or all of their lives, they go about their genteel lives immersed in their culture, their art, and their land, until something or somebody causes them to snap. Almost every American knows one Indonesian word, amok, as in to run amok. While few people are as cultured and halus as the Indonesians, they are unmatched when it comes to running amok. When an Indonesian man has had enough, when he has lost his job, when he has lost his house, when he can no longer provide for his family, he takes his curvy-bladed Keris and runs screaming into the street slashing and killing until he himself is killed.
After being in the country for a time, I realized there were times when you would see the older people off by themselves, whispering, backs turned and heads together. It took time and trust, but after a while they would allow you in, and you would hear them speak of friends long dead, of the terror, and of the questions that still haunted them. To this day no one can really say for sure who or what started it.
For five hundred years the Indonesians had been repressed, colonized and trampled: The Spanish, the Dutch, the English, the Dutch again, the Japanese, the Dutch again, and then finally by one of their own, Sukarno. And then they just had enough. The entire country went amok.
Most government histories say that as many as 300,000 people were killed in what was officially called a coup against Sukarno. Unofficial estimates put the number of dead closer to 1 million. Having looked into their eyes, seen the horror, and listened to their stories, I tend to believe the higher number. I was first haunted by the story, and then I was surprised because no one I knew had any hint of what had happened. No one knew that a million people had died on a beautiful archipelago half way around the world as spy battled spy in what the Brits called the Great Game. This time the good guys won, but it was no game. Communism was beaten back toward the Asian Mainland, but at what cost?
Fast forward to today. And The Moslem World is on fire.
This book is the story that would not leave me alone.
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Tags

cia, president, sharia, coup, indonesia, surharno, surkarno

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