![]() ![]() The Jakarta Method could have focused more specifically on the U.S.’s intervention in Indonesia’s anti-communist campaign, instead of drawing parallels to Latin America, to keep the subject tight. The Indonesian massacre was replicated in South America in 1971 as Brazil’s government partnered with right-wing forces in Chile under “The Jakarta Operation” with the intention to crush its own communist movement. ![]() He added that Chiang’s government had “paid close attention to the massacre” in Indonesia and sponsored attacks on the Chinese embassy in Jakarta in order to weaken both President Sukarno and Mao Zedong’s regime. Meanwhile, across the strait, Taiwan “had long been home to active anti-communist crusaders” under Chiang Kai-shek’s rule. An international affairĪccording to Bevins, Beijing at the time had neither the ability nor the intention to interfere. Photo Credit: AP / TPG Images Indonesian President Sukarno, left, and then-General Suharto, right, are shown together as they attended a military ceremony in Jakarta in mid-October 1965. ![]()
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