ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a discussion of naming and shaming within the context of transitional justice. It focuses on the contestation of two different naming and shaming cases in Indonesia; the first, the government’s hegemonic narrative about the 30 September Movement; the second, the narration of history by survivors from a human rights perspective. The chapter analyses the repressive practices carried out by the Indonesian government and by hard-line elements within civil society to persecute and stigmatise victims and survivor communities. It outlines how this naming and shaming was practiced within the International People’s Tribunal (IPT) 1965 and the effect that this had in Indonesia. The chapter argues that the naming and shaming performed by the IPT 1965 created a powerful tool for putting pressure on the Indonesian government to deal with the 1965 events. Naming and shaming has an entirely different meaning when talking about the 1965 case.
