Little noticed in the West, the past two years have witnessed the largest protest wave in decades against Indonesia’s increasingly authoritarian crony-capitalist government. But activists are still mentally stuck in the 1990s, deploying depoliticized concepts like “civil society” and “moral force,” and resorting to ill-conceived methods of resistance that have left the movement in a rut and unable to realize its radical potential.
Reminder to read The Jakarta Method.
Very good book with a true and horrifying story.
Just don't read it right before bed or you'll lay awake staring at the ceiling. Great book.