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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Memory, Truth, and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia
David Webster
Incomplete Truth, Incomplete Reconciliation: Towards a Scholarly Verdict on Truth and Reconciliation Comissions
S
arah Zwierzchowski
Section I: Memory, Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste
East Timor: Legacies of Violence
Geoffrey Robinson
Shining Chega!?s Light Into the Cracks
Pat Walsh
Politika Taka Malu, Censorship, and Silencing: Virtuosos of Clandestinity and One?s Relationship to Truth and Memory
Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
Development and Foreign Aid in Timor-Leste after Independence
Laurentina "Mica" Barreto Soares
Reconciliation, Church, and Peacebuilding
Jess Agustin
Human Rights and Truth
Fernanda Borges
Chega! for Us: Socializing a Living Document
Maria Manuela Leong Pereira
Section II: Memory, Truth-seeking, and the 1965 Mass Killings in Indonesia
Cracks in the Wall: Indonesia and Narratives in the 1965 Mass Violence
Baskara T. Wardaya
The Touchy Historiography of Indonesia?s 1965 Mass Killings: Intractable Blockades?
Bernd Schaefer
Writings of an Indonesian Political Prisoner
Gatot Lestario
Section III: Local Truth and Reconciliation in Indonesia
Gambling with Truth: Hopes and Challenges for Aceh?s Commission for Truth and Reconciliation
Lia Kent and Rizki Affiat
All about the Poor: an Alternative Explanation of the Violence in Poso
Arianto Sangadji
Section IV: Where Indonesia meets Melanesia: Memory, Truth, and Reconciliation in Tanah Paupa
Facts, Feasts, and Forests: Considering Approaches to Truth and Reconciliation an Tanah Paupa
Todd Biderman and Jenny Munro
The Living Symbol of Song in West Paupa: A Soul Force to be Recknoed With
Julian Smythe
Time for a New US Approach towards Indonesia and West Paupa
Edmund McWilliams
Section V: Memory, Truth, and Reconciliation in Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands "Ethnic Tension" Conflict and the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Terry M. Brown
Women and Reconciliation in Solomon Islands
Betty Lina Gigisi
Section VI: Bringing it Home
Reflecting on Reconciliation
Maggie Helwig
Conclusion: Seeking Truth about Truth-seeking
David Webster
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