Webinar: Rutgers International Institute for Peace Invited Lecture: The Long Red Thread: Indonesia’s Infrastructure of Impunity from 1965 to the Present

Speaker : Elizabeth F. Drexler, Director, Peace and Justice Studies and Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University

Impunity is not simply a legal process, it permeates the social, political, legal and cultural contexts. Understanding the repeated performance of impunity as an infrastructure discloses how a number of dynamic systems intersect to compound impunity over time and space. Prof. Drexler will explore how victims, family members, and activists persistently demand justice (most often defined in legal terms) despite repeated failures to achieve accountability and consider how their consistent and creative demands may ultimately subvert the infrastructure in the realm of affect rather than truth and law. 

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