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1965 Affair & Anti-Communist Purge

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April 14, 2016

Jakarta Post - April 14, 2016

Liza Yosephine – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said an apology over the atrocities of 1965 would be futile unless the whole truth was revealed.

Portal KBR - April 14, 2016

Ria Apriyani, Cianjur – Police have shut down a meeting by victims of the mass killings in 1965-66 that was to be held in Cipanas, Bogor, West Java on the grounds that members of the Pancasila Yout

April 13, 2016

Jakarta Globe - April 13, 2016

Jakarta – The United States must disclose information contained in its confidential archives related to the 1965-66 anti-communist massacres, as high-ranking Indonesian officials repeatedly said th

The Guardian (Australia) - April 13, 2016

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Calls for the Indonesian government to launch a truth and reconciliation process to address the slaughter of half a million suspected communists in the 1960s are growing ahead

April 1, 2016

Inside Indonesia - April 2016

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Inside Indonesia - April 2016

Willy van Rooijen – Women in the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago recently published a taboo-breaking survey taken among the victims of the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965.

Inside Indonesia - April-June, 2016

Marlene Millott – When the Indonesian army massacred an estimated half a million alleged communists in 1965, it did so with the backing of western powers.

March 12, 2016

Jakarta Post - March 12, 2016

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government, through the National Archive Agency (ANRI), should try harder to obtain an authentic document of the March 11 Indonesian Presidential Executive Order (Superse

March 11, 2016

Associated Press - March 11, 2016

Matthew Pennington, Washington – The Indonesia that Barack Obama lived in as a child bore fresh scars from the darkest period in country's modern history.

February 29, 2016

Jakarta Globe - February 29, 2016

Jakarta – A leftist festival dubbed "Belok Kiri Festival" or "Turn Left Festival," scheduled to start last weekend in Taman Ismail Marzuki, Central Jakarta, has been relocated to the Jakarta Legal

February 28, 2016

Tempo.co - February 28, 2016

Arkhelaus W., Jakarta – The Preparatory Committee-All Indonesia United Workers Confederation (KP-KPBI) condemned Jakarta Police's action banning the Belok Kiri.Fest event to be held at Taman Ismail

February 24, 2016

East Timor and Indonesia Action Network Alert - February 24, 2016

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February 10, 2016

Jakarta Post - February 10, 2016

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – American documentary film director Joshua Oppenheimer is set once again to focus global awareness on Indonesia's past human rights abuses as his critically accl

February 9, 2016

Jakarta Post - February 9, 2016

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The American documentary film director Joshua Oppenheimer is set to make his way up the red carpet at the 2016 Academy Awards later this month, voicing the impo

January 31, 2016

Jakarta Post - January 31, 2016

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Indonesia's civil society should give young people more opportunities to express their opinions about the 1965 tragedy through various ways, including visual art work

December 11, 2015

Jakarta Post - December 11, 2015

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – It will be hard to prevent people from watching Joshua Oppenheimer's second groundbreaking documentary on the 1965 Indonesian communist purge, The Look of Si

December 9, 2015

Jakarta Post - December 9, 2015

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesia has moved backward and is becoming an uncivilized nation in terms of its repression of freedom of expression, according to art and human righ

Jakarta Post - December 9, 2015

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Even after the passing of 50 years, Indonesians are still reluctant to bring up the events of 1965 in a discussion as they always relate it with the co

Jakarta Post - December 9, 2015

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Professors, university staff and students helped detect, expel and torture suspected communist elements during the 1960s political upheaval, a Gadjah Mada Univer

Jakarta Post - December 9, 2015

Novani Nugrahani, Jakarta – A novel by Indonesian author Laksmi Pamuntjak, Amba, which was translated into German under the title "Alle Farben Rot", has sold more than 10,000 copies sin

Jakarta Post - December 9, 2015

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ) condemned on Tuesday the Jakarta Police's move of issuing it a letter pressuring the council to cancel a discussion on the 1965 t

December 8, 2015

Jakarta Post - December 8, 2015

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have banned a reading and discussion of a drama script titled "Family Album: #50years1965" at the Jakarta Theater Festival (FTJ) that was scheduled to take

Jakarta Globe - December 8, 2015

Jakarta – The Jakarta Art Council (DKJ) released a statement on Tuesday saying that a drama dealing with the events of 1965 at the Jakarta Theater Festival (FTJ) will be staged despite

December 7, 2015

Jakarta Globe - December 7, 2015

Jakarta – Tumiso Lukas still remembers the morning of Dec.

December 5, 2015

Red Flag - December 5, 2015

Janis Hooper – Over four days in November, the voices of survivors of the 1965 Indonesian massacres were heard by a hushed crowd of several hundred people, mainly Indonesian exiles, gat

December 2, 2015

Washington Post - December 2, 2015

Kai Thaler – Fifty years ago today, the US Embassy in Indonesia sent a cable to the State Department asking for funding to help civilian groups that the United States knew were engaged

November 26, 2015

November 22, 2015

Jakarta Globe - November 22, 2015

Jakarta – Aboe Bakar Alhabsyi, a lawmaker for the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), wants the Indonesian "traitors" who attended proceedings of the International People's Tribunal 1965 in

November 18, 2015

Jakarta Post - November 18, 2015

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University (UGM) was involved in the purge of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and its supporters in 1965 and the following yea

New Mandala - November 18, 2015

Stanley Widianto – Following an International People's Tribunal on Indonesia's 1965 massacre, which accused the Indonesian government of murder and torture and which Vice President Jusu

November 14, 2015

Jakarta Post - November 14, 2015

Jakarta – The panel of judges at the International People's Tribunal (IPT) at The Hague has concluded that the Indonesian government was responsible for the massacres and oppression that followed t

Jakarta Post - November 14, 2015

Jakarta – Attorney General M.

November 13, 2015

Jakarta Post - November 13, 2015

Jakarta – The Foreign Ministry says the government has nothing to do with the proceedings currently underway at the International People's Tribunal (IPT) at The Hague, the Netherlands.

November 12, 2015

Jakarta Globe - November 12, 2015

Jakarta – The website of the International People's Tribunal 1965, held in The Hague until Friday, could not be accessed in Indonesia on Thursday, sparking speculation that it was being blocked.

Jakarta Post - November 12, 2015

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – A website presenting updates on the International People's Tribunal on Indonesia's 1965 mass killing could not be accessed on Thursday afternoon.

Jakarta Post - November 12, 2015

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – The second day of a "people's tribunal" in The Hague, the Netherlands, in relation to Indonesia's 1965 massacre heard testimony from a survivor of sexual abuse on Wednesda

Coconuts Jakarta - November 12, 2015

An independent tribunal investigating Indonesia's involvement in the 1965 massacres, during which an estimated 500,000-1 million people connected to the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) were system

Equal Times - November 12, 2015

Nithin Coca – World leaders often cite Indonesia as an example of tolerance and democracy, both for Asia and the Islamic world.

November 11, 2015

BBC Indonesia - November 11, 2015

Rebecca Henschke – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Padjaitan has accused the organisers of the International People's Tribunal on 1965 (IPT 65) of being "kuran

Jakarta Post - November 11, 2015

Jakarta – A human rights activist has criticized President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's subordinates for rebuffing the people's tribunal on the 1965 mass killings and standing against the exposure of the

The Guardian (Australia) - November 11, 2015

Galuh Wandita – In 1965, Kadmiyati was a young student teacher who enjoyed the arts living in Bantul, a small district outside of Yogyakarta.

November 10, 2015

Independent Australia - November 10, 2015

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

Jakarta Globe - November 10, 2015

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

Associated Press - November 10, 2015

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 Post - November 10, 2015

Jakarta – The government has refused to acknowledge the International People's Tribunal 1965, being held in The Hague, the Netherlands, saying that Indonesia works on its own justice system.

November 9, 2015

Jakarta Post - November 9, 2015

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

November 6, 2015

Jakarta Post - November 6, 2015

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

November 5, 2015

Jakarta Globe - November 5, 2015

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