Lieutenant General Agus Widjojo's father was one of the Indonesian generals killed in the alleged communist coup. When the BBC showed Gen Widjojo the documents released on Tuesday, he said ...

The U.K. ran a propaganda campaign in the mid-1960s urging that the "communist cancer be cut out of the body of the state.” An international people's tribunal at the Hague looks into one of the ...

A new documentary, Shadow Play, by the Australian award-winning filmmaker, Chris Hilton, deals with the anti-communist purges in Indonesia in 1965-66, during which up to a million Indonesians are ...

AN UNPRECEDENTED two-day conference on anti-communist massacres carried out in Indonesia with British and US complicity in 1965-66 began yesterday in a Jakarta hotel. Retired general Agus Widjojo ...

THE Indonesian Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) urged the US yesterday to release secret files on the 1965-66 anti-communist massacres. While the US government has ...

Even as they conferred, Defense Minister Nasution was preparing a purge of all Communists in the armed services, and there was dark talk of a sweeping decree banning the Indonesian Communist Party ...

Between 1965 and 1966, at least 500,000 people were killed in Indonesia during a political purge. Following a failed coup, the military went on a rampage and targeted suspected communists across ...