30+ Years of Freedom of Information Action

About this Project

Since 2002, the National Security Archive's Indonesia / East Timor documentation project has sought to identify and obtain the release of thousands of secret US documents concerning US policy toward Indonesia and East Timor from 1965 to the present. The work aims to assist East Timorese and Indonesian official and nongovernmental efforts to document and seek accountability for more than three decades of human rights abuses committed during the rule of Indonesian President Suharto (1965-1998), and to contribute to current campaigns in Indonesia for more open government.

Books

Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
By Bradley R. Simpson

"Simpson's book constitutes an important addition to our knowledge of the global Cold War. It is based on meticulous archival research, frames its detailed finding within a larger argument and is written in a direct and accessible prose style. This text will be of interest to scholars and students of U.S. foreign policy, the international Cold War, and the modern history of Southeast Asia and Indonesia."
– Edward Aspinall, American Historical Review

Indonesia Documentation Project

Videos

Bradley Simpson testifying before the International People's Tribunal 1965
The Hague, November 13, 2015

Featured Posting

U.S. Embassy Tracked Indonesia Mass Murder 1965

U.S. government knew Indonesian Army was engaged in mass murder against Communists starting in 1965; U.S. supported suppression of left-leaning labor movement

Oct 17, 2017