Selective Justice
Some 700 people were detained in the wake of the Malari riots. In a military detention center, student activists and anti-Japanese protestors were thrown together with unidentified demonstrators with unclear aims.
January 14, 2014
Caught Between two Elephants
One day after the Malari incident, a wave of arrests took place. Gen. Sumitro and Maj. Gen. Ali Murtopo attacked each other by sending their respective opponents to jail.
JAKARTA was still seething one day after the 15 January 1974 riots. Dozens of University of Indonesia students who were unable to go home because of the curfew imposed by the military, had to spend the night at their campus in Salemba. Charred ruins
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