Indonesia and East Timor documents

These are some of the documents that I have gathered over the years for my next possible book project, on Indonesian engagement with the politics of development and human rights during the Suharto era, including East Timor/Timor Leste. I will add more files as conduct more research. The files here are mostly read only, but if you find something you are interested in, feel free to reach out and I can get you downloadable copies. There is much more that is not yet in an organized state, or is available through my Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, which has declassified more than 50,000 pages of formerly secret US documents concerning Indonesia, East Timor, and West Papua during the Suharto era (1996-1998). You can access the documents here in Google Drive.

Here are some of the archives and collections represented in these documents:

US National Archives

UK National Archives

Australian National Archives

World Bank Archives

UN archives

International Institute for Social History

Lembaga Bantuan Hukum (LBH)

New Zealand National Archives

TAPOL

INGI Papers Leiden University

Hoover Institution

ELSAM

Australian Council for Overseas Aid

Australian National Archives

International Planned Parenthood Federation

Tamiment Library East Timor and Indonesia Solidarity Collection

SOAS Archives - Christian Aid, Conference of British Missionary Societies

UN Food and Agricultural Organization Archives

Evangelical Lutheran Church Archives

Donald Fraser Papers, Minnesota Historical Society

AIUSA collection, Columbia University

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Here is a link to a dropbox folder with the more than 30,000 pages of formerly classified US documents from 1964-1968 that I digitized in 2018 with a team of student researchers. They formed the basis of the NSA briefing book I wrote entitled U.S. Embassy Tracked Indonesia Mass Murder 1965. If you go to the dropbox folder you can conduct keyword and date searches in the search bar and see PDF copies of the documents. Click here for an example.

From 2002-2005 I worked with East Timor’s Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation to attempt to declassify documents concerning US support for the 1975 invasion and 24 year occupation of East Timor. The Bush Administration was uncooperative so we just gave the CAVR a database with nearly 5,000 pages of US documents from the period. You can read the documents here. Start with the excel spreadsheet at the top, which has the documents organized by date, title, and agency. These documents were used to help the CAVR write the historical section of its 2006 report, which I wrote about here.