Uncovering data on the 1965-1966 genocide is difficult. These events took place 60 years ago. Most perpetrators and victims ...

Another term frequently mentioned by survivors is TPU (Tempat Penahanan Umum) —translated as General Detention Sites. Far ...

Manis also recounted the story of Lasmi, a young kindergarten teacher from Sijunjung, West Sumatra. She was another prisoner ...

This urgent project involves the work of Indonesian and international researchers, seven regional fieldwork teams spread ...

Andreas Iswinarto has run the Online Genocide Library of 1965-1966 since 2016, is a member of the Association of the ...

This version of history became the justification for punishing them without due process and for destroying women’s political ...

The denial of the genocide which took place in Indonesia after 1 October 1965 has cultural, legal, discursive and affective ...

Before this, many efforts have indeed been made to preserve the memory of the 1965 mass killings. As Ken Setiawan, a ...

Una sits in a small room at the back of one of my friends’ houses in the small village of Teduk in western Lombok. Poverty is endemic in Teduk, as in many parts of Lombok, and consequently many women ...

When Indonesian parliamentarians wanted to curtail the powers of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), social media was suddenly awash with messages suggesting that the KPK was full of ...

The collapse of the New Order during the Asian financial crisis paved the way for many political and economic reforms in Indonesia. In exchange for development aid, multilateral donor agencies such as ...

Child marriage, defined by international organisations as the marriage of someone under the age of 18, has come under increasing scrutiny in Indonesia in recent years. Several legislative changes have ...