Jakarta – A seminar to counter the recent government-sponsored symposium on the 1965-66 anti-communist purge will be staged soon in Jakarta, leaders of anti-communist organizations in the city said

Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu was in full battle mode when he spoke of a need to counter what he saw as "the rise of communism" to hundreds of retired generals and members of several

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has admitted that military (TNI) and police officers have overreacted to his order to uphold the law against any efforts to spread communist

Jakarta, Indonesia – The government sponsored national symposium on 1965 was held in April although reverberations over the forum, which for the first time brought together victims and perpetrators

Jakarta – Logos bearing the hammer and sickle, recognized as a communist symbol worldwide, have suddenly become popular in Indonesia.

Jakarta – Activists are decrying the increasing involvement of the military in Indonesian public affairs, which they say is accompanied by rampant human rights violations and attempts to prevent a

Jakarta – The owners of books related to communism have been asked to hand them over the government.

Jakarta – Retired Indonesian military (TNI) officers are planning to organise an anti-PKI (Indonesian Communist Party) symposium on July 2.

Jakarta – People are afraid of communism because they do not understand it and just accept the single narrative of history provided by the government over the past 50 years, an expert has said in t

Jakarta – More than 50 years after the 1965 anti-communist purge, Indonesia has seen a reemergence of communist symbolism and debate through social media, pushing authorities to take serious action

Dieqy Hasbi Widhana – Following the 1965 International People's Tribunal (IPT65) in The Hague and the National Symposium on the 1966 Tragedy in Jakarta, there has been widespread arrests of people

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has instructed law enforcers to enforce the laws against the use of communist imagery, National Police chief Gen.

Jakarta – The government plans to form a joint team to examine mass graves allegedly used to bury victims of the 1965 communist purge as part of its commitment to resolving the tragedy that has bee

Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) labour activist Iswan Abdullah A Siata is paying close attention to the communist movement that has begun to reemerge in Indonesia of late.

Jakarta – Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace chairperson Hendardi believes that the recent spate of propaganda about the rise of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), which is being linked to

Mei Amelia, Jakarta – The Kebayoran Baru sectoral police have questioned a clothing trader in the Block M shopping district of South Jakarta for selling T-shirts with pictures of the hammer-and-sic

Nurul Hidayat, Mojokerto - Five members of a local band called Mesin Sampink in East Java have been arrested by the Mojokerto municipal police for playing the song Genjer-Genjer during a music perf

Ayomi Amindoni – Most people born after 1965 only learn about the 1965 tragedy through school textbooks and the G30S/PKI movie that many historians deem a propaganda tool of the New Order regime.

Sukma Indah Permana, Yogyakarta – A film showing of the documentary "Buru Island My Homeland" (Pulau Buru Tanah Tanah Air Beta) at the offices of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in th

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – Right activists visited the Office of the Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister on Monday to report their findings on 122 mass graves across Java and

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Survivors of Indonesia's anti-communist massacres in 1965 submitted a list of what they say are more than 100 mass graves to the government on Monday after the president c

Stephen Wright & Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's decision to investigate anti-communist massacres in 1965 is being met with wariness by rights groups, some of which are r

Elly Burhaini Faizal – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's efforts to start a reconciliation process around the tragedy of 1965 demands both domestic and international recognition and support, a right

Ati Nurbaiti – A national symposium on the bloodshed of 1965 has brought together the persecuted, the persecutors and their respective families.

Jakarta – Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator Haris Azhar has invited the government to examine its findings on mass graves of the victims of the 1965 affai

Nani Afrida – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has ordered Coordinating Political, legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan to find any mass graves from the 1965 bloodshed, to allow a ver

The recommendations from the national symposium on the 1965 tragedy will be given to the government in July, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says.

Devina Heriyanto – G30S and PKI used to be a pair of infamous abbreviations in the Indonesian public sphere.

Mark Colvin: There's widespread scepticism among Indonesia experts after a top Indonesian cabinet Minister yesterday said there was no hard evidence of anti-communist massacres in the country in 19

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned about a symposium on the 1965 massacre, held on 18 and 19 April 2016 in Jakarta.

Abraham Utama, Jakarta – National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) Deputy Commissioner Dianto Bachriadi says that Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is lying about the 1965 tragedy.

The government must straighten out Indonesia's history by repairing the reputation of former president Sukarno who has been accused of being involved in the 1965 abortive coup that was blamed on th

After more than half a century without clarity on the identity of perpetrators or those who orchestrated the event, some survivors and victims of the 1965 tragedy hope that the government will reha

Despite denials from the military, victims of the 1965 massacre have reaffirmed that the number of people killed in the tragedy could reach as many as 3 million, and the total number of those affec

Anton Hermansyah – The two-day symposium on the 1965 tragedy ended on Monday, but historians could not reach any conclusions about this dark episode in Indonesian history, although the organizers t

Hans Nicholas Jong – While maintaining a rigid stance on the death toll and a refusal to apologize for the 1965 tragedy, the government on Tuesday softened its position on the settlement of unanswe

Niniek Karmini & Stephen Wright, Jakarta – Indonesia on Monday convened an unprecedented discussion of anti-communist massacres in 1965-66 that brought together survivors and representatives of

Anton Hermansyah – Survivors of the 1965 tragedy have called for reconciliation through the revelation of the truth behind the mass killing of members and sympathizers of the Indonesian Communist P

Anton Hermansyah – In a historic move, the Indonesian government has for the first time organized an official event to talk about the massacre of people accused of being communist sympathizers in 1

Jakarta – Indonesian activists boycotted a state-backed forum on the anti-communist purge of 1965 on Tuesday, a day after a senior minister said the government would not apologise for the one of th

Joe Cochraneapril, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia's security minister said on Monday at a symposium devoted to the mass atrocities committed half a century ago during anti-Communist purges in the c

Marguerite Afra Sapiie – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Islamic outfit in Indonesia, has called on the government to uncover the truth behind the violence and repression that wracked the nation

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Indonesia's chief security minister said the country must make peace with its past but ruled out a government apology to the victims of the 1965 anti-c

Jakarta – Tensions flared during a discussion on Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purges on Monday (18/04), with the major point of contention revolving around how the government should address w

The government has stressed that there are no plans for an official apology for the 1965 anti-communist purge, an official said Monday.

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Lauren Farrow and Heru Rahadi – For years Svetlana Nyoto lived with the fear that someone would find out who she was.

Elly Burhaini Faizal – A high school history teacher in Batam, Riau Islands, has brought alternative narratives of the 1965 to 1966 communist purge into class as a way to reveal the truth behind th

Human rights activists have warned the government not to use next week's national symposium on the 1965-1966 mass killings as a way to force a one-sided reconciliation that upholds the impunity of

Yenni Kwok – A half-century after at least half a million people were killed in a brutal pogrom against suspected communists and communist sympathizers, Indonesia is still unsure about whether it i