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The Rush to Rewrite History

Monday, June 23, 2025

The government is suspected of attempting to cover up gross human rights violations through rewrite of Indonesia’s official history—a move that risks monopolizing historical narratives.

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Chairman of the Indonesian Historical Transparency Alliance Marzuki Darusman (right) during a public hearing with Commission X of the House of Representatives at the Parliament Complex in Senayan, Jakarta, May 19, 2025. Tempo/Amston Probel. tempo : 177361738481.

DISCUSSIONS on the mass rapes of May 1998 have reached the team tasked with rewriting Indonesia’s official history. Shortly after Minister of Culture Fadli Zon dismissed the rapes as rumors, the WhatsApp group of dozens of history editors erupted in debate. Unlike Fadli, many of them agreed that the rapes had indeed occurred.

Jajat Burhanuddin, chief editor of the history revision team, confirmed that the main dispute centered on the term

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