The Anti-Communism Alliance (AAK) movement has set out to deceive the Indonesian people. The sweeping of works by a number of Indonesian intellectuals carried out by AAK and its command posts in several cities set a terrible precedent in this new democracy emerging from three decades in an authoritarianism cage. Burning leftist works, such as Marx, on the basis of ‘erasing’ communism from Indonesia is absurd. Communism is very differe