¹ “Election Tests Indonesian Democracy,” New York Times, April 27, 2017.

² Margaret Scott, “Indonesia: The Saudis Are Coming,” New York Review of Books,“ October 27, 2016.

³ Peter Chalk, Angel Rabasa, William Rosenau, The Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia: A Net Assessment (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2009).

⁴ Robert Hefner, “Disintegration or Democratization? Muslim Christian Violence and the Future of Indonesia.” In Olle Tornquist, ed., Political Violence: Indonesia and India in Comparative Perspective (Oslo: Center for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.)

⁵ Allan Nairn, “News: ”Do I have the guts,“ Prabowo asked, ”am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?“ Allan Nairn Website, June 22, 2014.

⁶ Ed Vulliamy and Antony Barnett, “How US trained butchers of Timor,” Guardian, September 19, 1999.

⁷ The Joint Fact Finding Team set up by the government (comprising military, government and civil society reps) in its October 1998 report on the May riots–including the mass rapes of ethnic Chinese women–recommended that Prabowo's role in the entire process (including a meeting at Kostrad headquarters) that led to the May riots be investigated.

⁸ Cf. “Politician / Trump fanboy Fadli Zon tweets ‘Let's Make Indonesia Great Again,‘” Coconuts Jakarta, February 9, 2017.

⁹ Allan Nairn, “Prabowo, Part 2: ‘I was the Americans’ fair-haired boy.’ The Nationalist General and the United States,” Allan Nairn Website, July 1, 2014: “Prabowo told me [in 2001] he was ‘Very good friends with DIA (the US Defense Intelligence Agency) back to George Benson.’ Benson spent decades going in and out of Indonesia for US intelligence. Benson worked with elements of ABRI in the CIA-backed covert operation to oust Sukarno, providing US intelligence for the 1958 attack on Padang, West Sumatra. Benson later effectively ran US-ABRI covert operations against Sukarno leading up to Sukarno's toppling amid the mid-1960s US-backed massacres that killed hundreds of thousands of Indonesian civilians.”

¹⁰ Declassified Documents Quarterly Catalogue, 1982, 002507 (Cable of April 15, 1965, from U.S. Delegation to U.N.). This gives the lie to the public claim that Freeport Sulphur did not initiate negotiations with Indonesians until February 1966 under Suharto (Forbes Wilson, The Conquest of Copper Mountain [New York: Atheneum, 1981], pp. 153-5).

¹¹ Rich Duprey, “Indonesia Still Looking to Strip Freeport-McMoRan of World's Largest Gold Mine,” The Motley Fool, April 20. 2017. Cf. Jon Emont, “Foreigners Have Long Mined Indonesia, but Now There's an Outcry,” New York Times, March 31, 2017, “The government has in recent years passed regulations intended to exert greater control over mine operators. Freeport says those requirements violate the company's 1991 contract, which lasts until 2021 and which it wants to renew.”

¹² Allan Nairn, “Breaking News: Indonesian Special Forces, Intelligence, in Covert Operation to Influence Election,” ETAN (East Timor Action Network).

¹³ Allan Nairn, “Prabowo, Part 2: ‘I was the Americans’ fair-haired boy.' The Nationalist General and the United States,” citing Bob Woodward, Bush at War, (Simon & Schuster, 2002), [90, 217].