# The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins

4 Hacker News commenters recommended The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as an exploration of the deliberate destruction of independent third world movements, and as a sad, unsettling account of the killings in Indonesia.

## Why people recommend it

- Explores deliberate destruction of independent third world (1 comments): "A book 'The Jakarta Method' by Vincent Bevis is a great exploration of those events and similar cases of deliberate destruction of the independent third world." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710434))
- Covers about 1M Indonesians killed (1 comments): "check out the book "The Jakarta Method" and learn about the ~1M Indonesians killed in this era of Pax Americana" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772496))
- Powerful, sad story (1 comments): "It really knocked me back and was a pretty sad story." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980984))

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## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541724003?tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/130825/9781541724006) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jakarta-method/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).