Making Sure It Does Not Happen Again
The government needs to preserve the memory of human rights abuses of the past to ensure that these dark events are not repeated.
Tempo
October 3, 2022
THE tragedy of September 30, 1965 has two sides. One is the killing of seven senior army officers by troops of the Cakrabirawa presidential guard led by Col. Untung. The other side is that the incident led to arrests, detentions, torture and the killing of hundreds of thousands to millions of members, sympathizers and those accused of being affiliated with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). It is this second side that is now ignored, or is eve
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