He weaves interviews with academic sources, backroom CIA dealings with thwarted dreams of would-be revolutionaries, and delivers a well-researched and tightly written work that is at times extremely provocative, both politically and emotionally. Though receiving some initial criticism, he has managed to craft an excellent book, and I don’t write that lightly. Bevins, a California-born journalist with a fascinating career that has seen him stationed in London for the Financial Times, Brazil for the LA Times and Jakarta for the Washington Post wrote this book on ‘US-backed mass murder in Indonesia, military coups in Latin America, and the ways Washington’s Cold War interventions have shaped life in the entire “developing” world to this day’. These palm-fringed sands take on a darker aspect when one learns of their prominent roles in a transcontinental web of political intrigue, mass killings and the assertion of US hegemony, with Seminyak playing host to mass graves and Copacabana a recurring location for far-right agitation. However, The Jakarta Method, the new book by Vincent Bevins, might just change that. 2020.Īsk most people what they associate with Copacabana in Brazil and Seminyak in Bali, and it’s likely to be a tropical idyll. The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World. This is a well-researched, tightly written and emotionally affecting book, writes Thomas Kingston. In The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins explores the US role in the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-66 as well as military coups in Latin America to show the consequences of Washington’s Cold War interventions in the present day.
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