Ke kejaman suharto biography
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Introduction
1Media, be it fiction (Suryajaya, ; Heriyati, ; Wirawan, ) or factual—documentaries (Paramaditha, ), journalistic reports (Parahita, ), as well as videos conveying alternative perspectives of the /66 massacres—have been used to enhance social memories of / Such media have been distributed through new media platforms, including YouTube (Espena, ; Ikhwan, Yulianto, Parahita, ).
2Owing to its capacity to offer different means of interpreting and remembering the trauma of modern Indonesian history, cinema has become part of the battle for history in Post-Soeharto Indonesia (Espena, 59). Arifin C. Noer’s film Penumpasan Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI (The Eradication of the Treachery of the 30 September Movement/Indonesian Communist Party), more commonly known as Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI,has been widely propagated to produce an official memory of /66 and its aftermath (Zurbuchen, ; Wieringa & Katjasungkana, ). However, since the collapse of Soeharto’s New Order in , at least forty alternative films dealing with the /66 massacre have been released.1 In the current digital era, the internet has been widely used to distribute films. As YouTube viewership in Indonesia is among the highest around the world (Katadata, ), the website has thus become one major locus of mem
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Prabowo and human rights
Gerry van Klinken
Prabowo has emerged as a strong presidential candidate, despite his past - Marcus Mietzner
As everybody knows, one of the strongest candidates for the presidency has an image problem, related to his army days. But abducting a couple of dozen student activists in is not Prabowo’s worst human rights problem, though it’s what he’s best known for. Fifteen years earlier he was in the middle of a counter-insurgency operation in East Timor that claimed many hundreds of lives. It started on 16 September with the massacre of dozens of people, including women and children. They had surrendered to Indonesian soldiers after coming down from Mount Bibileo near Viqueque. A survivor told the East Timorese truth commission CAVR:
"Three Hansip [civil guards] led the way and other military personnel surrounded the group of people so no one could escape… We started to walk at around pm and arrived at the location on the mountain at approximately pm…We sat down and again military personnel surrounded us to avoid any escapes… Then more Indonesian soldiers arrived… When they arrived we were given the order to stand up. I was standing, along with everyone else, facing the valley. Then we were told to walk. I took one step and the Indonesi
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