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

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

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

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

By situating these recovered documents within broader socio-political and historiographical frameworks, The Silent Survivors ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Technicians of state utility PLN take part in an exercise to learn what do in case of emergencies in Depok / Antara Photo/Teresia May The government’s approach to this mega power infrastructure ...

At Indonesia Bertutur 2024, a biannual festival exploring Indonesia’s cultural heritage through contemporary art, the historic gardens of Bali’s Museum Puri Lukisan became the stage for Amrta, a ...