Yogyakarta – Dozens of members of the Indonesian Anti-Communist Front (FAKI) disrupted a meeting involving the families of victims of the 1965 communist purge at the Santi Dharma Retreat in Sidoagung village, Godean district, in Sleman regency, Yogyakarta, on Sunday.
"Three people were injured people and an elderly man passed out. I do not know what happened to him," one of the organizers, Irina Dayasih, told The Jakarta Post. She lamented that the meeting was forcibly dispersed because they were doing nothing wrong.
"We were only going to discuss how to make organic fertilizer," she said. "It used to only be old people that attended our meetings but now some young people have shown an interest."
FAKI founder and advisor, Burhanuddin ZR justified his group's behavior: "We do not want communist meetings in Yogyakarta," he said.
He explained that the meeting in Yogyakarta followed a similar meeting in Pacitan, East Java, held on Oct. 22 and he did not believe the meeting was about organic fertilizer. Burhanuddin was confident that the meeting focused on how to resurrect communism in Indonesia.