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Buru Island : A Prison Memoir.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Herb Feith Translation SeriesPublisher: Melbourne : Monash University Publishing, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (408 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925835588
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Buru IslandDDC classification:
  • 365.45092
LOC classification:
  • DS644.1.B84 .H477 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover -- Title Page -- About this Book -- Copyright and Imprint Information -- CONTENTS -- Translator's Note -- Foreword -- Glossary -- Introduction: The Tragedy of 30 September 1965 -- Maps -- Part I: Before Buru -- Chapter 1. From Free Citizen to 'ET' -- Chapter 2. Operation Keep Your Mouth Shut -- Chapter 3. Journey to the 'Isle of Hope' -- Chapter 4. Last days in Camp Tangerang -- Chapter 5. Freedom Road -- Chapter 6. Tangerang versus Salemba -- Part II: Buru Stories -- Chapter 7. From Sanleko to Bantalareja -- Chapter 8. Starting at Namlea -- Chapter 9. First Sunset at Bantalareja -- Chapter 10. First Night Roll Call -- Chapter 11. Firsts at Unit XIV Bantalareja -- Chapter 12. Tales of Unit XIV Bantalareja Clusters -- Chapter 13. Tap Water Comes to Unit XV Indrapura -- Chapter 14. Command Headquarters Band -- Chapter 15. The 'Savanajaya Family' -- Chapter 16. Salt Tales -- Part III: Buru People -- Chapter 17. Heru Santoso -- Part IV: Life after Buru -- Chapter 18. The Purgatory Island of Buru Twenty Years Later -- Chapter 19. A Birthday Present for My Daughter -- About the Author -- About the Translator -- About the Herb Feith Translation Series.
Summary: Buru Island was the site of Indonesia's most remote and infamousprison camp. In the wake of the 1965 repression of the political Left, between1969 and 1979, approximately 12,000 men were held on Buru without formal chargeor trial. During their detention prisoners suffered torture, forced labour andmalnourishment, as well as social isolation.
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Front cover -- Title Page -- About this Book -- Copyright and Imprint Information -- CONTENTS -- Translator's Note -- Foreword -- Glossary -- Introduction: The Tragedy of 30 September 1965 -- Maps -- Part I: Before Buru -- Chapter 1. From Free Citizen to 'ET' -- Chapter 2. Operation Keep Your Mouth Shut -- Chapter 3. Journey to the 'Isle of Hope' -- Chapter 4. Last days in Camp Tangerang -- Chapter 5. Freedom Road -- Chapter 6. Tangerang versus Salemba -- Part II: Buru Stories -- Chapter 7. From Sanleko to Bantalareja -- Chapter 8. Starting at Namlea -- Chapter 9. First Sunset at Bantalareja -- Chapter 10. First Night Roll Call -- Chapter 11. Firsts at Unit XIV Bantalareja -- Chapter 12. Tales of Unit XIV Bantalareja Clusters -- Chapter 13. Tap Water Comes to Unit XV Indrapura -- Chapter 14. Command Headquarters Band -- Chapter 15. The 'Savanajaya Family' -- Chapter 16. Salt Tales -- Part III: Buru People -- Chapter 17. Heru Santoso -- Part IV: Life after Buru -- Chapter 18. The Purgatory Island of Buru Twenty Years Later -- Chapter 19. A Birthday Present for My Daughter -- About the Author -- About the Translator -- About the Herb Feith Translation Series.

Buru Island was the site of Indonesia's most remote and infamousprison camp. In the wake of the 1965 repression of the political Left, between1969 and 1979, approximately 12,000 men were held on Buru without formal chargeor trial. During their detention prisoners suffered torture, forced labour andmalnourishment, as well as social isolation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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