Jakarta – The Indonesian government has rebuffed as irrelevant a people's tribunal to be staged in The Hague this week over a military-led purge that led to the deaths of up to two million suspecte

Adam Henry – Why is it seen as appropriate for Australia to support and celebrate the perpetrators of one of the great mass killings of the 20th Century – before, during and after the e

Mike Corder, The Hague – A "people's tribunal" opened hearings in the Netherlands Tuesday intended to publicize allegations that Indonesian authorities were responsible for killing hundreds of thou

Jakarta – A human rights lawyer has urged the government to apologize to the families of victims of mass killings in 1965 during the International People's Tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands, s

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has vehemently denied the allegation that it tried to ban Indonesian students from attending a "people's tribunal" on the 1965 Indonesian Communist Part

Jakarta – Local authorities in Yogyakarta have seized toys imported from China featuring "communist" symbols over fears they may encourage children to explore communism.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has allegedly tried to ban Indonesian students from attending a "people's tribunal" on the 1965 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) purge in The Hague.

Jakarta – House of Representatives (DPR) Commission X overseeing education, youth affairs, sports, tourism, art and culture is set to summon Culture and Elementary and Secondary Education Minister

Half a century ago in Indonesia, following the events of October 1 1965, 500,000 to one million people accused of being members or supporters of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) w

Anas Apriyadi, Bantul – Scores of sets of children's toy miniature soldiers in Bantul, Yogyakarta, were seized from a number of toy shops by TNI (Indonesian military) soldiers from the Bantul 0729

Nancy Groves – If the Indonesian authorities hoped to silence conversation about the 50th anniversary of the country's anti-communist purges that killed an estimated 500,000 people in 1965, their 1

Jakarta – Indonesian lawmakers want to know how exactly the government spent 10 million euro ($11 million) in taxpayer money to be present at the Frankfurt Book Fair and why "certain groups" played

Ni Komang Erviani, Gianyar, Bali – The 12th Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) in Bali officially concluded on Sunday evening with a call for writers and the public to continue their fight ag

When The Jakarta Post's senior editor spoke at the Ubud Readers and Writers festival in Bali, a policeman emerged from the audience to photograph him.

Katharine McGregor & Jemma Purdey – The forced cancellation by local Gianyar (Bali) police of panels and other events related to discussions of 1965 at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival las

Ati Nurbaiti and Ni Komang Erviani, Ubud – The young writer Eliza Vitri Handayani went around the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival selling her own novels from her backpack, wearing a T-shirt depic

Jakarta – Amnesty International is calling on the Indonesian government to stop restricting the rights to freedom of expression and assembly with its attempts to silence public discussion about the

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Ubud, Bali – As creeping censorship of politically sensitive issues by Indonesian authorities attracted international opprobrium last week, the bodies of nine victi

Jewel Topsfield, Ubud, Bali – The censorship of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has spread from sessions discussing the 1965 anti-communist massacres to other politically sensitive topics on

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Non-governmental organizations have called on the government to provide security for citizens to hold open discussions on the 1965 massacres, saying it would help the

Suherdjoko, Semarang – National Commission on Human Rights' (Komnas HAM) deputy chairperson Roichatul Aswidah visited Salatiga, Central Java, on Friday to collect information regarding a ban on a s

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Panel sessions and a film on the 1965 anti-communist massacres in Indonesia were prohibited at an international literary festival in Bali due to a 1966 government regulat

Harry Bhaskara, Brisbane – The Herb Feith Foundation, which sponsored events at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) that were eventually cancelled by authorities, has expressed its disappo

Ni Komang Erviani and Erika Anindita, Denpasar/Jakarta – The annual Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) has been forced to cancel a series of panel discussions on the 1965 Communist repression

Michael Safi – Indonesia's largest writers' festival has been forced to cancel a series of events marking the 1965 massacre of alleged communists, after threats by authorities to revoke its operati

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Indonesian officials have threatened to shut down Bali's prestigious international writers festival, compelling organisers to cancel sessions discussing the bloody massac

Suherdjoko, Semarang – A campus magazine has been taken off the shelves and its journalists have been interrogated by police for publishing a report on the killings of supporters of the now defunct

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Hundreds of copies of a student magazine published by student publishing institution (LPM) Lentera at the Satya Wacana Christian University's (UKSW) School of Social and Comm

Jakarta – The Association of Semarang Communities for Human Rights (PMS-HAM) said on Tuesday it had reported the retraction of Lentera, a student magazine published by the Satya Wacana Christian Un

Abdul Azis, Jakarta – The editor of the magazine Lentera (Beacon), Bima Satria Putra, says that the police have asked them to recall the October 10 issue of the magazine from circulation.

Jakarta – Authorities in West Sumatra deported a survivor of the 1965 anti-Communist purge after he tried to locate his father's mass grave, serving as yet another example how people believed to be

Jakarta – Crescent Star Party (PBB) chairman Yusril Ihza Mahendra has criticized the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) for repeatedly urging the government to making a formal apology

Jakarta – In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1965 communist purge, the Jakarta Art Council's (DKJ) Kineforum will screen 30 films, themed "Memori dan Suara yang Terpinggirkan" (Memorie

You arrived, my child, in the darkness of misery; You cried, but your father did not hear you; Only with your mother's tears, noble tears, embracing you; You came to life with many wounds – "Si Buy

Riky Ferdianto, Jakarta – The Palu municipal government in Central Sulawesi will issue an official apology to families of the victims of the 1965 mass killings.

Tama Salim and Fedina S.

Marlene Millott – Fifty years ago, on 30 September, one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century took place on Australia's doorstep.

Nithin Coca – In the heart of Medan, Indonesia third largest city and the setting for much of Joshua Oppenheimer's Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing, is a meticulously maintained, but

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Australian journalist Frank Palmos was one of the first foreigners in the world to witness the scale of the communist purge that started in Indonesia this month 50 years

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) has said that it is forbidden to apologize to the victims of the 1965 communist purge.

Jess Melvin – On a hot afternoon in 2010, I returned home from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency's archives in Banda Aceh with a heavy cardboard box filled with photocopied docu

Adriaan Bedner – On 23 May this year Pemuda Pancasila (PP) members came to the house of the poet Kelana, to ask him for 'clarification' about 'communist photos' he had uploaded on the p

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today urged the US Senate to act quickly and pass Sen.

Jakarta – President Joko Widodo confirmed that Indonesia will not issue an apology for its role in what has been described as one of the worst mass killings of the twentieth century, as the nation

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is certain that past incidents such as the rebellion by the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) will not be repeated in Indonesia.

Jakarta – As the 50th anniversary of the 1965 anti-Communist massacre in Indonesia draws near, several human rights advocates are again pressing US President Barrack Obama to fully declassify all o

The government will not apologize to the victims of the 1965 communist purge and instead will focus on reconciliation, said Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar

Jakarta – Fifty years after the bloodbaths of the mid-1960s, authorities in Indonesia continue to ignore the suffering of millions of victims and their relatives, Amnesty International said in a pr

Hari Tri Wasono, Blitar – Thousands of members of the Islamic mass organisation Nahdlatul Ulama's (NU) paramilitary youth wing Barisan Ansor Serbaguna (Banser) demonstrated in front of the Blitar r

Indonesian authorities are abandoning millions of victims and their family members who suffered through one of the worst mass killings in modern times, Amnesty International said on the