Indonesia, the Cannibal Nation

January 20, 2009

Julia Suryakusuma

  • The writer is the author of Sex, Power and Nation. She can be contacted at jsuryakusuma@gmail.com

    DO you bite your nails? Believe it or not, that’s technically an act of ‘self-cannibalism’.

    Yes, nail biting is (usually) harmless, but there are weirder forms of self-cannibalism, like eating your own hair, skin or blood, or forced self-cannibalism as a form of torture or war crime. In the 16th century, for example, Spa

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