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Art & Culture 7 years ago
Kho Wan Gie and Goei Kwat Siong Chinese-Indonesian artists behind legendary comic strips
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.
Opinion 9 years ago
Q&A: 1965 and national reconciliation
The symposium in April 2016 was significant because it represented the first effort from the government to discuss the massacre. However, there was pessimism about the government’s real intention. Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan bluntly stated that the government would not apologize for the massacre. Even more disappointing, Luhut questioned the 500,000 figure, and said: “I don’t believe the number was more than 1,000. Probably less.”
