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Acknowledgments I began writing about the September 30th Movement while a Rockefeller Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California–Berkeley, as part of its Communities in Contention Program in 2001–2002. I am grateful to the institute ’s director, Michael Watts, for providing such a lively environment for learning. Joseph Nevins was the reader of the first formulations of my argument. His ruthless criticisms over lunches in the cafes of Berkeley helped me realize that the brief journal article that I intended to write about the September 30th Movement was insufficient to deal with its complexities. His comments on later drafts greatly helped me to think about the presentation of the argument. For their varied forms of assistance in the Bay Area, I thank Iain Boal, Nancy Peluso, Silvia Tiwon, Jeff Hadler, Hala Nassar, Mizue Aizeki, and Mary Letterii. An audience at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in late 2001 heard an early, unrefined version of the argument in this book. I thank those who attended the talk for their thoughtful comments. I thank Alfred McCoy, who taught me years ago how to study militaries and coups d’état, for inviting me to give the talk and encouraging me to write this book. After putting aside the manuscript for two years so that I could finish my work relating to the experiences of the victims of the 1965–66 mass violence in Indonesia, I returned to it in early 2004 while at the University of British Columbia. I thank my colleagues in the history department, Steven Lee for commenting on a draft of the entire book and Erik Kwakkel for help with Dutch terms. I thank Brad Simpson of the University of Maryland, who shared his expertise on U.S. government records pertaining to Indonesia, and David Webster, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the University of British Columbia, who shared his expertise on Canadian government records. I am deeply indebted to two anonymous reviewers who were generous in their praise even after spending what must have been many hours correcting the inordinate number of errors in the manuscript and arguing against some of its claims. I hope their patience in writing such xi detailed, critical commentaries has been rewarded with the revisions they will find here. Since early 2000, I have been researching the events of 1965–66 with a group of Indonesian scholars associated with Jaringan Kerja Budaya in Jakarta. This book has grown out of our joint research and our establishment of the Indonesian Institute of Social History. Extending a thank you to the following people would be inappropriate since this book is partly their own: Hilmar Farid, Agung Putri, Razif, Muhammad Fauzi, Rinto Tri Hasworo, Andre Liem, Grace Leksana, Th. J. Erlijna , Yayan Wiludiharto, Alit Ambara, B. I. Purwantari, and Pitono Adhi. The masters of the menagerie at Garuda—Dolorosa Sinaga and Arjuna Hutagalung—have provided office space for our research and open green space in the middle of a crowded megalopolis for our relaxation . Johan Abe and Mariatun have been of unstinting assistance. My companion for the past twelve years, Ayu Ratih, has guided my writing on Indonesian history while ensuring that history writing is only one part of an active life inextricably bound up with the lives of many other people. I have been fortunate in being so close to a paragon of a warm-hearted, critical engagement with the world. xii Acknowledgments t [3.230.128.106] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 11:07 GMT) Pretext for Mass Murder Map 1. Jakarta, 1965. ...