Indonesian anticommunism and Islamism merged to suppress 1965 history

Evidence

In Indonesia there was now an almost complete overlap between the radical anticommunist movement and the radical Islamist movement. Rumor has it that radical anticommunists spread the word—that is, the rumor—on the WhatsApp messaging service (owned by Facebook since 2014, and widely used outside the United States) that the conference was actually part of an effort to reestablish the Partai Komunis Indonesia, which would be both illegal and wildly implausible fifty-two years after the anticommunist atrocities began. That was a lie—but it may have been effective at getting people out to attack the terrified historians and survivors. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 697

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did two ideologically divergent movements fuse so completely? Worth chasing the mechanics of that alliance.
• XREF: Parallels how the US-funded pro-democracy network merged with Brazil’s right (ch14, ch20). — connects to: A new anticommunist Third-Worldist intellectual displaced traditional left affiliations after 1975 — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 791

Broader Connections

• A new anticommunist Third-Worldist intellectual displaced traditional left affiliations after 1975 #corroborates (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 791