Chapter 1: Remembered Signs, Dismembered Bodies
The 1965 killings: a master narrative
Dominant discourse
State terrorism, silence and conviviality
Beyond the New Order, beyond anti-communism
The paradox of an ethnic minority
Nostalgia for the nation
Chapter 2: The Implosion of Stigmas
1988: the year of living paranoidly
Top political friction
The refractory stigmatization
Effects and challenges
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: a tale of tales
Chapter 3: The Yogyakarta Case
Yogyakarta and student activism
A drama of the ordinary
The search for an underground network
Coming full circle
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Law and State-Terrorism
Legal structure
Prosecutions and convictions
Evoking the phantom of ‘communism’
Witnesses: the work of terror and its limits
Chapter 5: Hyper-obedience as Subversion
A series of fragile mutations
Simulacral regime, or reigning
simulacra?
The joy of misreading
Festival of democrazy
More and less than show trials
Post-New Order, beyond simulacra
Chapter 6: Identity, Power, and History
Theorizing state terrorism
Power relations debate
Conclusion