Pride in the PKI

A politician has published a book that extols being a child of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). How should we react to this?

October 8, 2002

Where eradicating corruption as well as changing public officials' mindset and parliamentarians' behavior is concerned, reformasi can be said to be dead. Yet, reformasi is very much alive when it comes to freedom of expression. Look at the book published by a child of a PKI member, describing her pride in the now banned Indonesian Communist Party. The author is Ribka Tjiptaning Proletariyati, a physician and politician who is member of the I

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