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6 unusual facts about Indonesian killings of 1965–66


Indonesian killings of 1965–66

In March 1967, Sukarno was stripped of his remaining power by Indonesia's provisional Parliament, and Suharto was named Acting President.

The purge was a pivotal event in the transition to the "New Order"; the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) was eliminated as a political force, and the upheavals led to the downfall of president Sukarno and the commencement of Suharto's thirty-year presidency.

One, the documentary film The Act of Killing, included interviews with individuals who had participated in the mass killings.

Following the fall of Suharto in the 1998 revolution, the Indonesian Parliament set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to analyse the mass killings, but it was suspended by the Indonesian High Court.

On 12 March 1967 Sukarno was stripped of his remaining power by Indonesia's provisional Parliament, and Suharto named Acting President.

Njoto

He was shot dead by around 6 November 1965 in the anti-Communist purge during the Transition to the New Order.


Puisi Tak Terkuburkan

Anne Rutherford, a senior lecturer on cinema studies at the University of Western Sydney, notes that Puisi Tak Terkuburkan was the first Indonesian movie to discuss the 1965–1966 communist purge.


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