1965' has become a kind of code to decipher: what Sundanese call a 'titimangsa', a code for a catastrophic occurencesomething called 'historic event'and because of this, always simplified. The murder of a group of generals. The terrifying revenge against the Indonesian Communist Party. The beginning of traumatic change in the history of Indonesian politics.

We know that '1965' is much more than that. "History is the stride of a heartless giant," the words