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However, my latest research has proven the Indonesian military planned the killings. The military spent at least one year preparing to initiate and implement its attack. This included deploying civilian militia groups to support its operation.
A new survey by The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) in collaboration with the Kompas Research and Development Department (Litbang) found that people under 22 years old were largely unaware of past human rights abuses in the country.
The level of trauma following mass persecution and killings in the aftermath of the abduction and murders of six generals and a low-ranking military member on Sept. 30, 1965, will lead to further manipulation by those among the political elite whenever they see fit.
Jess Melvin’s exemplary book, The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder, published by Routledge in 2018, could be seen as a call for state accountability concerning the mass killings of 1965-1966. The call for accountability is essentially a call for justice. But would that call ever be heard? So far, there are no signs of a strong political will to reopen the case of 1965.
Their work was brilliant but the timing wrong. Chinese-Indonesian artists Kho Wan Gie and Goei Kwat Siong built cultural understanding through comic strips, but the political turmoil in the 1960s abruptly ended their creative endeavours.
