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Comments on other issues: Bandung bows to FPI over performance
Censorship: Film director Wawan Sofwan (left), executive director of Institut Francais Indonesia (IFI) Melani Martini (second from right) and IFâs culture section coordinator Ricky Arnold (right) listen to an explanation from the script writer of Tan Malaka monologue Saya Rusa Berbulu Merah (I am a Red-furred Deer) about the monologueâs cancelation due to strong pressure from the Islam Defenders Front (FPI)
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Censorship: Film director Wawan Sofwan (left), executive director of Institut Francais Indonesia (IFI) Melani Martini (second from right) and IFâs culture section coordinator Ricky Arnold (right) listen to an explanation from the script writer of Tan Malaka monologue Saya Rusa Berbulu Merah (I am a Red-furred Deer) about the monologueâs cancelation due to strong pressure from the Islam Defenders Front (FPI).(JP/Arya Dipa) (left), executive director of Institut Francais Indonesia (IFI) Melani Martini (second from right) and IFâs culture section coordinator Ricky Arnold (right) listen to an explanation from the script writer of Tan Malaka monologue Saya Rusa Berbulu Merah (I am a Red-furred Deer) about the monologueâs cancelation due to strong pressure from the Islam Defenders Front (FPI).(JP/Arya Dipa)
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span class="inline inline-center">Censorship: Film director Wawan Sofwan (left), executive director of Institut Francais Indonesia (IFI) Melani Martini (second from right) and IF's culture section coordinator Ricky Arnold (right) listen to an explanation from the script writer of Tan Malaka monologue Saya Rusa Berbulu Merah (I am a Red-furred Deer) about the monologue's cancelation due to strong pressure from the Islam Defenders Front (FPI).(JP/Arya Dipa)
March 23, 2016
Institut Francais Indonesia (IFI), the French cultural center in Bandung, West Java, and a Bandung-based theater group, Mainteater, canceled their monologue theater performance about national hero Tan Malaka on Wednesday following pressure from a hard-line group that accused the show of spreading communist ideology.
The cancelation, just two hours before the show started, was related to pressure and threats from the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), said IFI Bandung cultural program coordinator Ricky Arnold.
The monologue, entitled Saya Rusa Berbulu Merah (I am a Red-furred Deer), was scheduled to be performed on Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m.
Your comments:
I still can't think logically how these kinds of barbarian acts still happen in this democratic country. How come one group of people in the name of one hard-line Islamic group can do such oppression? I still can't believe it. Tan Malaka is a national hero, he was an Indonesian founding father.
Yes he was a communist but he was an observant Muslim. He started his young life in an Islamic school in Yogyakarta. I think we have to re-arrange our view on communism. Communism has become a phantom for us since Soeharto's regime.
Willyakhdes
Why do Indonesians tolerate the usurpation of a legitimate function of their democratically elected government by a 'hard-line group'?
These hard-liners are not elected and really don't have much support among the people.
As such, they must not be allowed to limit debate.
Ideas are what propel mankind forward and the stifling of ideas is the specialty of the bully.
Abdul Fardji
Bowing down to the mob is common here.
Nate78
A better approach would be to allow the monologue and a rebuttal presentation. That way, differing views could be heard concerning Tan Malaka's place in Indonesian history.
Randomthought
