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February 28, 2018 Olivia Tasevski, _The University of Melbourne_ The Indonesian military recently announced that foreign researchers must request a permit to visit the museums it runs.
October 6, 2016 Yosef Djakababa, _Universitas Pelita Harapan _ For decades, Indonesia’s official national history was silent about the murders and incarceration of hundred thousands of
people. Moving beyond that will require a new understanding of what happened. September 30, 2016 Baskara T. Wardaya, _Universitas Sanata Dharma_ While the details of exactly what happened
during Indonesia’s 1965-66 massacre of ‘communists’ remain buried in the depths of time, here’s what we do know. April 21, 2016 Saskia E. Wieringa, _University of Amsterdam_ Indonesia needs
a combination of retributive and restorative justice for the reconciliation of the 1965-66 anti-communist killings. April 14, 2016 Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir, _The University of Melbourne_
Non-state actors in Indonesia use violence and intimidation against a critical civil society as a means for the political and business elites to maintain wealth and power. February 25, 2016
Windu Jusuf, _Binus University_ Oscar nominated documentary The Look of Silence follows an optometrist whose brother was killed in Indonesia’s 1965 massacre. But to understand the bigger
picture, viewers should watch its prequels. October 26, 2015 Vannessa Hearman, _University of Sydney_ The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has cancelled events discussing the 1965
Indonesian massacres, after police threatened to revoke the festival permit. October 12, 2015 Krishna Sen, _The University of Western Australia_ Arguably Indonesia’s most significant leftist
film director and theorist, Bachtiar Siagian, was among the millions who fell prey to the communist purge carried out between 1965 and 1966. October 1, 2015 Asvi Warman Adam, _Indonesian
Institute of Sciences (LIPI)_ In a watershed moment for Indonesia’s history, the deadly 1965 anti-communist purge transformed Indonesia from an independent Asian nation in the midst of Cold
War into a pro-Western country. September 30, 2015 Robert Cribb, _Australian National University_ The killing of six army generals on October 1, 1965, became a pretext to destroy Indonesia’s
communist party. June 9, 2015 Andrew Beatty, _Brunel University of London_ The Look of Silence eschews its predecessor’s gory glamour and offers a harder message for modern Indonesia. March
4, 2015 Vannessa Hearman, _University of Sydney_ Gatherings of victims of Indonesia’s 1965 anti-communist purge were attacked by groups of people last week in West Sumatra and Central Java.
November 21, 2014 Intan Paramaditha, _Universitas Indonesia_ With eyes fixed on his television screen, Adi Rukun, the main character followed by documentary maker Joshua Oppenheimer in his
new film, The Look Of Silence, seems to face a mirror that resurrects a nightmarish… October 1, 2014 Saskia E. Wieringa, _University of Amsterdam_ Next year it will be 50 years since a group
of middle-ranking army officers abducted the top brass of the Indonesian army. They had planned to bring them before President Sukarno, as they had heard rumours… April 11, 2014 Jemma
Purdey, _Deakin University_ and Katharine McGregor, _The University of Melbourne_ The Indonesian army and civilian vigilantes killed at least half a million people between 1965 and 1968.
Hundreds of thousands more were imprisoned without trial for long periods. Some were sent to remote…