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

The Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing was projected on the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Ronnie Hatley – A campaign of mass assassination, torture, rape, imprisonment and other atrocities against people accused of being 'communists' swept across Indonesia following the seiz

James Balowski, in Jakarta – Reneging on a pledge to apologise and make reparations for the victims of the 1965 anti-communist purge, when Suharto and the military seized power, the gov

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is disturbed with the recent rejection of the Indonesian government to the findings by the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) claimin

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Conn Hallinan – Why is the New York Times concealing the key role that the United States played in the 1965 coup in Indonesia that ended up killing somewhere between 500,000 and 1 milli

Jakarta – A team of relatives, historians and forensic scientists are pressing ahead with their efforts to carry out DNA tests on remains excavated in an East Java village three years

During the Suharto era, every September 30 the public was reminded of the 30 September movement – the failed coup – orchestrated by the Indonesian Communist Party.

Armando Siahaan, Singapore – Scholars attending a conference discussing the 1965 mass killings agreed on Friday that the Indonesian government had done very little to address the devast

Armando Siahaan, Singapore – Muslim organizations Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah played a significant role in the Indonesian Armed Forces' execution of alleged communists in the 1965-

Armando Siahaan, Singapore – Western governments supported the mass murder of more than half a million alleged communist supporters in the wake of the 1965 coup, a noted historian said

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – The controversy over Tim Weiner's book The Legacy of Ashes: The History of CIA, which claims Indonesia's former vice president Adam Malik was a US spy, has se

Adianto Simamora and Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – The release of Tim Weiner's Pulitzer-winning book The Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA in Indonesia has sparked controversy over a

Setiono Sugiharto, Jakarta – Thousands of history textbooks used in Indonesian schools have been confiscated by officials under the instructions of the Attorney General's Office (AGO),

Jakarta – The nation's younger generations will be offered a new perspective on the abortive 1965 coup allegedly committed by the now-defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in a recen

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – The East Nusa Tenggara Prosecutor's Office on Monday confiscated hundreds of elementary and high school textbooks from bookstores in Kupang, as their contents

Zainal Effendi, Surabaya – The Surabaya state prosecutor has seized primary and secondary school history books that are deemed to have the potential to disrupt national security.

Anissa S. Febrina, Jakarta – "What do you know about the G30S (September 30th movement)?" The Jakarta Post asked an 11th grader at state elementary school No.

Adisti Sukma Sawitri, Jakarta – The Education Ministry has rewritten school history books once again, restoring the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) as the sole culprit of the aborted 1

Adisti Sukma Sawitri, Jakarta – The government's plan to reinstate history textbooks that blame the Indonesian Communist Party for the violence after the 1965 coup attempt is reminiscen

Adisti Sukma Sawitri, Jakarta – The government is wooing back Indonesian students who lost their citizenship while studying abroad more than 40 years ago, during the failed coup blamed

Amid reports that the health of Indonesia's former dictator Suharto is deteriorating, the Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh has announced that the corruption case against him has been

Lisabona Rahman, Jakarta – A group of elementary schoolchildren carefully take notes as a guide takes them around Lubang Buaya (Crocodile's lair), a monument for the seven army officers

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Clinton Fernandes – The destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), 40 years ago following the seizure of power by pro-US military officers headed by General Suharto was a deci

Forty years ago this weekend, Indonesia was plunged into the darkest period in its history when Major-General Suharto unleashed a wave of mass killings regarded among the worst of the 2

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Jakarta -- It was hard to find any national flags being flown at half-mast on Tuesday, signaling that many Indonesians have forgotten about the shadowy September 30 incident.

From whatever side one looks at it, by any measure the chain of events that was set in motion by what happened around October 1, 1965, constitutes a human tragedy so huge it deserves to

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Lie Hua, Jakarta – September 30, 1965, is a black day in the history of modern Indonesia.

Jakarta – There are only a few books which mention that [Indonesia's founding President] Sukarno was involved in the 30GS rebellion(1).

Semarang – Based on intelligence data, there are presently 10,000 ex-political prisoners from the categories A, B and C across Central Java/Yogyakarta, who have established political pa

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – More than three decades after an abortive coup blamed on the communists, Indonesians are still unable to come to grips with this bit of their nation's history.

Matthew Moore – Indonesia's President Megawati Soekarnoputri made headlines last week by not turning up at the site of a disused well in east Jakarta for an annual ceremony.

"This would never have been possible in the Suharto era," mused one member of the audience at a showing of the film Shadow Play in Jakarta Monday.

Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri broke with tradition when she failed to attend the anniversary of the victory over the 1965 foiled communist coup which led to the rise of for

Muhammad Nafik and Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Demands have resurfaced for the government to reveal the truth behind the abortive September 30, 1965, coup as a perquisite for rec

Max Lane – In the last years of the New Order and since the fall of Gen.

Jakarta – Dozens of human bones have been found in a 67 metre deep hole in a village in East Java.

Jakarta – The latest biographer of former Indonesian dictator Suharto said Tuesday he believed the ex-president had no part in plotting the 1965 coup that indirectly paved his way to po

[The recent (inadvertent) release of more cables between the US embassy in Jakarta and Washington in late 1965 has supplied more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle mapping Washington's enth

Vaudine England, Jakarta – American officials are trying to recall a published history of how the United States supported anti-communist moves that brought former president Suharto to p

Jakarta – The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) may reject President Abdurrahman Wahid's call to revoke the 1965 decree prohibiting communism, but books on communism and leftist figu

Klaten – President Abdurrahman Wahid rebuked criticism of his support for the revocation of MPRS Decree No.

Paul Lashmar and James Oliver – The world's press was systematically manipulated by British intelligence as part of a plot to overthrow Indonesia's President Sukarno in the 1960s, accor

Jakarta – The National Defence Forces (TNI) will make a "comprehensive and meticulous" assessment of President Abdurrrahman Wahid's proposal to revoke a 1966 Provisional People's Consul

Robert Go, Jakarta – Taking his case directly to the people after Friday prayers in Jakarta, President Abdurrahman Wahid made his strongest appeal yet for a review of 1966 parliamentary