Writing for The American Conservative, Daniel Larison lauds The Jakarta Method as 'exceptional' in its 'dispassionate, matter-of-fact' reading of history that reveals aspects of American history lost in its current memory of the Cold War. In the LSE Review of Books, Thomas Kingston praises The Jakarta Method as an excellent book, well researched and tightly written, which 'manages to piece together events that have often been relatively unknown outside of academic or activist circles.' He says while he is familiar with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, he did not consider 'their echoes and influence around the world' until reading this book, meaning that it would likely be informative and enlightening to most readers, and cannot be dismissed by possible critics as simply 'an anti-American diatribe.' Kingston remarks that towards the end of the book, Bevins offers a good example of how it would be nearly impossible to write a truly balanced account of these terrible events when he asks one of the Indonesian survivors 'How did we win ?', who responds: 'You killed us.' Reception Īccording to literary review aggregator Lit Hub, the book received mostly 'Rave' reviews.

The killings in Indonesia by the American-backed Indonesian forces were so successful in culling the left and economic reform movements that the term 'Jakarta' was later used to refer to the genocidal aspects of similar later plans implemented by other authoritarian capitalist regimes with the assistance of the United States. The book goes on to describe subsequent replications of the strategy of mass murder, against government reform and economic reform movements in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. The title is a reference to Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, during which an estimated one million people were killed in an effort to destroy the political left and movements for government reform in the country. government support for and complicity in anti-communist mass killings around the world and their aggregate consequences from the Cold War until the present era. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World is a 2020 political history book by American journalist and author Vincent Bevins.

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