IN Richard Tanter’s view, Indonesia may not have changed much. Two weeks ago, he arrived from Australia to be a speaker in a panel discussion titled Indonesia & The World 1959-1969 at the Goethe Institute in Jakarta. It was attended by political scientists from a number of countries, who came to discuss and debate the 1965 incidents from the perspectives of their respective countries.

Tanter was a bit surprised that the G30S (abbreviated refer