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View all search resultsThe Legal Aid Institute (LBH) in Surabaya, East Java, has lambasted the Kraksaan Police and the Indonesian Military for seizing books believed to contain communist teachings, saying the move was arbitrary and unlawful.
Former military commander Gatot Nurmantyo has called on the military to hold a public screening of a controversial movie about the quashing of an attempted coup blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI).
Alfian Tanjung, a Muslim preacher and former lecturer charged with spreading hate speech for calling the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) members “communists” on Twitter, was acquitted of all charges, as he had only "copied and pasted" information from dubious sources.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is irritated that some people still accuse him of being affiliated to the defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), years after the rumor was first spread during his campaign in the 2014 presidential elections.
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