I interviewed Clifford Geertz at IAS in February 1998. When I asked him about the 1965-66 army-led massacre of more than 1,000,000 people in Indonesia, he told me, “As far as I was concerned, Suharto saved the country.” Consider that, and then read this:http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/truth-about-indonesia-killing-fields/ …
academic complicity and collaboration with state crimes is not an anomaly, it is the norm