Edition 99: Jan-Mar 2010 - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

The killings of 1965-66

Even now, Indonesians find it difficult to face the traumatic events of the past

The mass killings of 1965-66 in Indonesia were international, not just local, events - and the US played an important role

When Nahdlatul Ulama members killed communists, they believed they were doing it for God

Two villagers from the rural fringe of Surabaya recall the most frightening night of their lives

Many of those accused of being communists fled to South Blitar after the Surabaya crackdown, only to become the target of the Trisula Operation in 1968

Suspected communists who survived the killings of 1965-66 in South Sulawesi spent the next 20 years working for the military in an isolated jungle camp

Forty-five years later, survivors are telling their stories about their suffering in detention

The exhumation of mass graves from 1965-66 is a fraught and dangerous business

This mini-encyclopedia explains some of the key terms pertaining to the events of 1965-66

The killings of 1965-66

Accomplices in atrocity

Killing for God

Terror in Tandes

Hunted communists

Survival through slavery

I'm still here

Sensitive truths

Dictionary of a disaster

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