Tjandra Leksana

This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence.

Grace Leksana obtained her doctoral degree from Leiden University. She is currently an assistant professor in the History Department at Universitas Negeri Malang, researching collective memory, state violence, oral history, rural and agrarian studies, and decolonization. She is a member of the Indonesian Institute of Social History (Institut Sejarah Sosial Indonesia).