Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence

This is the first book to analyse the mass violence that occurred during the earliest episode of postwar colonial violence-the decolonization struggle of Indonesia between 1945 and 1950. Taking a multi-perspectival approach, nineteen authors examine the origins of the conflict as well as its representations and effects. This book is based

Bart Luttikhuis studied history and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and Humboldt University in Berlin, and in 2014 completed his PhD at the European University Institute, Florence, on 'Constructions of Europeanness in late-colonial Indonesia, 1910-1940'. A. Dirk Moses is professor of global and colonial history at the European University Institute, Florence, and associate professor of history at the University of Sydney. He is the author of German intellectuals and the Nazi past (2007), and is senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.

1. Colonial counterinsurgency and mass violence: the Dutch empire in Indonesia Part I. Conquest and reconquest 2. Colonial warfare and military ethics in the Netherlands East Indies, 1816-1941 3. Genocide in the Kampongs? Dutch nineteenth century colonial warfare in Aceh, Sumatra 4. Business as usual: Dutch mass violence in the Indonesian War of Independence 1945-1949 5. Learning on 'the job': Dutch war volunteers entering the Indonesian war of independence, 1945-46 6. 'Who wants to cover everything, covers nothing': the organization of indigenous security forces in Indonesia, 1945-50 Part II. Indonesian violence 7. The killing of Dutch and Eurasians in Indonesia's national revolution (1945-49): a 'brief genocide' reconsidered 8. Anti-Chinese violence in Java during the Indonesian Revolution, 1945-49 9. Walking the tightrope: internal Indonesian conflict, 1945-1949 Part III. Representations and memories 10. 'Not a colonial war': Dutch film propaganda in the fight against Indonesia, 1945-49 11. 'Trust me, this news is indeed true': representations of violence in Indonesian newspapers during the Indonesian revolution, 1945-1948 12. Cleo's 'unfinished business': coming to terms with Dutch war crimes in Indonesia's war of independence 13. Colonial memory and forgetting in the Netherlands and Indonesia 14. From national sacrifice to compensation claims: changing Indonesian representations of the Westerling massacres in South Sulawesi (1946-1947) 15. Competitive or multidirectional memory? The interaction between postwar and postcolonial memory in the Netherlands 16. Epilogue: On genocide and mass violence in colonial Indonesia