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March 20, 2023
Indonesia’s Jokowi Restores Citizenship to Political Exiles
By Sebastian Strangio
The policy is part of a recent government push to recognize past episodes of human rights abuses committed by the state.
January 12, 2023
Indonesia’s Jokowi Admits to Serious Past Human Rights Abuses
By Sebastian Strangio
The leader acknowledged 12 episodes of gross human rights violations that occurred between the 1960s and the early 2000s.
October 18, 2021
Declassified Files Illuminate UK Role in Indonesian Anti-Communist Purges
By Sebastian Strangio
The U.K. ran a propaganda campaign in the mid-1960s urging that the "communist cancer be cut out of the body of the state.”
February 06, 2019
Suharto’s Shadow Still Lingers in Indonesian Museums
By Michael G. Vann
“New Order” history is a sensitive topic as Indonesia’s presidential election approaches.
October 06, 2017
Is Indonesia’s Military Chief Making a New Political Power Play?
By Keith Loveard, Shinta Eka Puspasari and Nalendra Yusa Faidil
A closer look at Gatot Nurmantyo’s apparent play for political power.
May 27, 2016
What's Behind the New Communist Scares in Indonesia and the Philippines?
By Mong Palatino
Anti-communist sentiment in both countries has grabbed headlines over the past few months.
November 19, 2015
International Court Revisits Indonesia's 1965 Mass Killings
By Mong Palatino
An international people's tribunal at the Hague looks into one of the country's most troubling periods.
August 03, 2012
Unburying the Past
While some nations in Southeast Asia turn away, Indonesia looks back on a tortured past.
August 01, 2012
Indonesia Looks Back
A recent report has many in Indonesia looking back at a tragic moment in its history.
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