The Year of Living Safely
January 30, 2001
It was all ready to hit the streets and re-write history. Some 10,000 copies of the sensational book by former Indonesian foreign minister Subandrio had been printed and a launch party at a posh hotel planned. Distribution was set to begin. Then suddenly the editors at Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Indonesia's top publisher, got cold feet. All copies of the book, My Testimony about G30S, disappeared overnight and the publication was cancelled. When exac
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