Jess Melvin
Jess Melvin is a Discovery Early Career Research Award fellow in the School of Humanities (History) at the University of Sydney. She is author of The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (2018). She was previously a postdoctoral fellow in genocide studies and a Henry Hart Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asian studies at Yale University. Her research interests include human rights in Southeast Asia, political violence in the postcolonial world and Acehnese history.
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Resisting Indonesia’s Culture of Impunity »
Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Publication date: August 2023
Resisting Indonesia’s Culture of Impunity examines the role of Indonesia’s first truth and reconciliation commission—the Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or KKR Aceh—in investigating and redressing the extensive human rights violations committed during three decades of brutal separatist conflict (1976–2005) in the province of Aceh.
The KKR Aceh was founded in late 2016, as a product of the 2005 peace deal between the Indonesian government…