Muhammad Yunus Yosfiah, Information Minister (1998-1999): The PKI Film Does Not Promote Any Doctrine

THE uproar surrounding the re-release of the movie Penumpasan Pengkhianatan G30S PKI (Crackdown on the Treachery of the September 30 Movement of the PKI) prompted Muhammad Yunus Yosfiah to recall an incident of almost two decades ago. In 1998, after the beginning of the reformasi movement, the then information minister under President Bachruddin Jusuf Habibie banned the screening of the 4-hour-long movie.

Yunus believed that adulating a past pol

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