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Bahasa IndonesiaThis report gives an historical overview of the 1965–66 massacres, persecutions, and continuing discriminatory policies against alleged communists and their descendants in Indonesia.
Transitional justice
Wife and children of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist and political prisoner © TAPOL
Indonesia has made substantial progress in its transition to democracy, but its overall record on justice and accountability still falls far short of international standards. Our work on transitional justice aims to support Indonesia in coming to terms with its abusive and authoritarian past and adapting to a more democratic future, based on justice and the rule of law.
The problem of impunity continues to dominate the transitional justice debate in Indonesia. Our effort to promote greater accountability for human rights violations focuses on one of the twentieth century’s worst atrocities, the mass murders that accompanied former President Suharto’s rise to power in 1965/66. We undertake international advocacy and support civil society partners and victims’ groups in their struggle for official acknowledgement of the truth about the tragedy and an end to ongoing discrimination against victims and their families.
We support efforts to secure justice for the widespread violations of human rights and crimes against humanity committed in East Timor, West Papua, Aceh and elsewhere in Indonesia.
TAPOL regards the protection of Human Rights Defenders as an important aspect of our work in promoting transitional justice, and we continue to call for justice for the state-directed murder in 2004 of Munir, Indonesia’s foremost human rights defender and prominent critic of the Indonesian military.
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Book Review: Recollections of 13 Women Detained and Tortured after October 1965
Kembang Kembang Genjer is one of a number of books published in the past few years which gives the opportunity to victims, in this case all of them women, to tell their stories. This book consists of thirteen chapters relating the experiences of women now in their 70s or 80s.
Film Screenings: Indonesia and the 1965 tragedy
A series of powerful and moving accounts of the brutal events that accompanied Suharto’s rise to power in 1965/66 presented by producer, Putu Oka Sukanata, a political detainee himself between 1966 and 1976.