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‘It was the worst when I was released. That’s the biggest prison I had to face’.
Martin Aleida recalls the moment he was released from prison at the end of 1966. The then twenty-two-year-old writer emerged from nearly a year behind bars to Jakarta unable to find his friends and comrades. His (...)
Falcon Picture is again producing a film based on a story taken from a novel by Indonesia foremost author Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This time, Falcon Pictures is working on a film titled “The Fugitive” (Perburuan).
The official poster for the film was launched on Wednesday June 26 in Jakarta. (...)
Review of Vannessa Hearman, Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia (National University of Singapore Press, 2018).
The Indonesian genocide was one of the great crimes of the twentieth century. Its victims were leftists who struggled against (...)
On 30th September 1965, a group of army officers and soldiers called the Thirtieth September Movement abducted and killed seven army officers, and disposed of their bodies in a disused well, at Lubang Buaya, on the outskirts of Jakarta. While predominantly a movement of progressive soldiers and (...)
Purba Wirastama, Jakarta — Two decades have passed but the whereabouts of poet-activists Wiji Thukul is still unknown after he disappeared mysteriously in 1998.
His two children, Fitri Nganthi Wani and Fajar Merah have tried to present anew the memory of the figure Wiji Thukul through their (...)
A new book proves that the Indonesian army was responsible for the systematic slaughter of leftists in the 1965–66 genocide — and that orders came directly from the top.
Jess Melvin’s new book, The Army and the Indonesian Genocide , has been rightly hailed as a breakthrough. Uncovering the actors (...)
The veteran Australian activist explains how he abandoned a diplomatic career to translate a banned Indonesian author into English, and why the works of Pramoedya Ananta Toer are still not taught in Indonesian schools
Many academics, intellectuals and Indonesian youth can speak fluently on the (...)
From 1965 to 1966, the Indonesian military and its allies massacred hundreds of thousands of Communists — often with the active aid of Western, democratic governments.
Review of Geoffrey B. Robinson, The Killing Season. A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66 (Princeton University Press, (...)
In 1968, Suharto’s authoritarian New Order regime obliterated the Indonesian Communist Party’s efforts to rebuild after the 1965 massacre.
In Indonesia, 1968 was a year of defeat for the Left. A military operation, called the Trident (Trisula) Operation obliterated attempts by remnants of the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia, PKI) to organise resistance against Suharto’s authoritarian New Order regime from bases in southern rural East Java. The strongest base, in remote (...)
Recently declassified documents shed new light on the United States’ role in one of the largest slaughters of the 20th century, writes Jess Melvin, in an article for Melbourne University’s Indonesia at Melbourne blog.
There is much outrage in the United States that a foreign state might have (...)
• Indonesian army and Muslim groups massacred hundreds of thousands
• Thousands of files from 1963-66 made public after declassification review
Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge of and support for an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed (...)
Final Report of the IPT 1965:
Findings and Documents of the IPT 1965
JULY 20, 2016
EDITORIAL NOTE
This is the Final Report of the Judges who participated in the hearings held in the Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, Netherlands from 10 to13 November 2015. Before the hearings, the judges received (...)
30 SEPTEMBER 2015
50 YEARS AFTER G30S, A TIME TO RECOVER THE TRUTH!
50 years ago, on 30 September 1965, when there was rumours about a planned coup against Sukarno, a group of officers mainly consisted of Presidential Guards staged a “countercoup”, where 6 generals, including General Ahmad (...)
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of a mass slaughter in Indonesia. With American support, more than 500,000 people were murdered by the Indonesian Army and its civilian death squads. At least 750,000 more were tortured and sent to concentration camps, many for decades.
The (...)
A failed coup sparked a widespread spate of killings 50 years ago. It left a legacy of violence and denials that continues to haunt Indonesia today.
On September 30, 1965, Indonesia changed, in many more ways than one.
Nearly 50 years later, the nation has yet to come to terms with its (...)
Fifty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists were slaughtered — all with the support of the US.
On the morning of September 30, 1965, a small group of army officers and Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) members attempted a coup against the Indonesian army leadership. Six (...)
THE PREAMBLE
The price of impunity; the scope of the International People’s Tribunal 1965
The internationally-acclaimed film The Act of Killing (2012) by Joshua Oppenheimer has shown the world the face of impunity in relation to the crimes against humanity committed in Indonesia after October1 (...)
Fifty years of denials, evasions, and silences. Among the genocides of the twentieth century, the Indonesian genocide is perhaps the least under understood. It remains shrouded in obfuscations and mystifications, such that the identities of the perpetrators and victims have become wildly (...)
Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on Tuesday called on the US to acknowledge its role in Indonesia’s communist purge after screening The Act of Killing, his film on 1965 death-squad leaders, for US Congress members and staff.
“Fifty years is a long time to not call a (...)
The systematic political murder of around 1 million people in Indonesia began on 1 October 1965 and lasted around three years. The violence was accompanied by mass arrests, probably hundreds of thousands going in and out of ad hoc prisons between 1965 and 1968.
Almost 20,000 were kept in (...)
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