Rina Atriana, Jakarta – Retired Major General Kivlan Zen says that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) has already been revived and has formed an organisational party structure and has prepared as

Jakarta – Former vice president Try Sutrisno called on Wednesday for an addendum in the 1945 Constitution to ensure that communism, Leninism and Marxism were prohibited ideologies in the country.

Jakarta – Ideological tensions may heat up as some retired Army generals have organized an anti-communist symposium for Wednesday in response to an event in April when participants discussed the de

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government says it will draft a recommendation on the settlement of the 1965 communist purge, combining input resulting from a government-sponsored national sy

Jakarta – Activists and religious leaders demanded on Sunday that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo end the division among his aides over the events surrounding the 1965 communist purge, which they sa

Indonesian activist Adlun Fiqri could be jailed for wearing a t-shirt allegedly bearing a leftist logo, one of many caught up in a backlash against efforts to shine a light on military-backed, anti

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The unresolved tragedy of 1965 has left at least 1,571 victims displaced and alienated from society.

Jakarta – Resolving the 1965 tragedy is the government's first priority as the long-neglected case has grabbed the negative attention of the international community.

Haeril Halim – Despite an earlier vow for a conciliatory solution to end the controversy regarding the 1965 communist purge by the end of this year, the government has made it clear that no state a

Jakarta – Human rights watchdog Setara Institute has called on President Joko Widodo to come down hard on Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu for ignoring the president's instructions on dealing wit

Jakarta – The team from the National Symposium on the 1965 Tragedy is set to submit to the government their recommendations, based on detailed analysis of the communist purge, in the hope of provid

Fadli, Batam/Jakarta – The nationwide crackdown on activities and symbols related to communism continues.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama on Tuesday criticized the prohibition of books on communism and the raids against various left-wing-related activ

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

Jakarta – A number of writers and literacy activists have condemned the recent bans on leftist books ordered by the military in an apparent attempt to prevent a feared revival of communism.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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