ABSTRACT
In part, this book focuses on Indonesia’s repression and extrajudicial executions in East Timor. The authors explicitly take the international community to task for deliberately acquiescing in allowing human rights abuses to be perpetrated in East Timor and other areas under Indonesian control. Further, they assert that the cold war, along with perceptions of Indonesia’s strategic and economic signifi cance, resulted in a Western-and particularly a United States-policy of support for the Suharto government regardless of its human rights record. They go on to note that in the post-cold war period more attention was paid by the West to the human right infractions of Indonesia, but the former still continued to sell weapons and provide huge amounts of economic assistance to Indonesia, as well as reject refugees fl eeing Indonesian repression.
