A Conflict of Interest in Tinkering with Official History
Monday, June 23, 2025
Fadli Zon plans to erase the mass rapes during the May 1998 riots from the official history. Although it cannot be neutral, history should be honest.
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History, people say, is written by the victors, and therefore stories of the past can never be truly neutral. But while interpretations of events may carry inherent bias, historians must avoid conflicts of interest. Any history driven by motives other than revealing the truth devolves into propaganda.
Culture Minister Fadli Zon clearly has a conflict of interest in leading the rewriting of Indonesia’s modern history. He is a loyal subordin
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