1965 - 1966

Honouring Indonesian activist Putu Oka Sukanta for humanity

OzAsia festival illuminates the world of Indonesian performance and its social concerns 

The Indonesian way of confronting the past underestimates the importance of truth and justice

Standing up in the name of truth and justice

Esai foto-foto Pulau Buru

Pohlman’s study provides sensitive and powerful testimony of the impact of this violence on women and girls

Reverend Mery Kolimon, researcher and advocate working on the 1965 killings in Eastern Indonesia, has a personal connection to this piece of history

A memoir by a former army officer offers insights into Suharto’s moves in October 1965

Australia’s role in the 1965 massacres

Like Toer’s tetralogy before it, Semua Untuk Hindia turns Indonesia’s national history narrative on its head

Dealing with human rights abuses has been business as usual under the Jokowi administration

Ongoing impunity for perpetrators continues to impact on the lives of women survivors

Saskia Wieringa’s latest novel brings to life a dark period in Indonesia’s past

Indonesia, beginning of the 1980s. The young journalist Tommy comes into contact with the survivors of the genocide that the New Order regime of General Suharto carried out. To her bewilderment she hears stories about lurid dancing, castrations and the murder by young girls of a number of generals in the night of October 1 1965.  Guided by Ibu Sri, herself a former prisoner and a member of the women’s organisation that was held responsible for these alleged sexual and sadistic perversions she sets herself the task to unravel these fantasies.  Who invented these hateful lies which were meant to incite mass organizations to murder possibly one million of their neighbors?  Tommy is betrayed and thrown into prison. 

The International People’s Tribunal 1965 explained 

The case of Sekber ‘65 in Solo, Indonesia

Women who survived ‘1965’ in eastern Indonesia demand state recognition

Young researchers discover that the victims of history hold a secret every Indonesian should know