In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos by Richard Lloyd Parry explores not the edge of chaos, but the literal chaos of various civil disturbances in Indonesia at the turn of the twentieth century. The genocidal violence of Indonesia degenerated into cannibalism in some areas, and civil war in East Timor nearly led to the extermination of its people. Parry’s unflinching look at a society in meltdown is sobering.
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