Comments on: 2012: the year of remembering https://www.phansw.org.au/2012-the-year-of-remembering/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2012-the-year-of-remembering Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Terri McCormack https://www.phansw.org.au/2012-the-year-of-remembering/#comment-197 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:22:13 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=578#comment-197 Francesca, I found your post particularly pertinent. I first stayed in Indonesia three years after the 1965 coup and found people still in a state of shock and unable to trust their neighbours.
In Oct 2012, I attended the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. The theme was Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind), the first in a quartet written by the dissident writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer while he was exiled on the political island prison of Buru. I subsequently visited the village of Sanana on Buru while sailing around Sulawesi & Maluku and spoke to an elderly survivor who had many memories of Pramoedya and his fellow prisoners. It was a moving experience and interesting to learn that, after twenty years or more, many prisoners chose to remain on Buru with their new families rather than return to Java.
As I will now be dividing my time between Sydney and Indonesia, I will watch the work of the Coalition of Justice and Truth with interest in their attempts to recognise and reconcile this extremely painful past.
Any further details you care to send to me by my private email will be appreciated.
Many thanks.

]]> By: Pauline Curby https://www.phansw.org.au/2012-the-year-of-remembering/#comment-166 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:39:04 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=578#comment-166 Thanks for your post, Francesca, and for drawing our attention to the talk on 14 February. It’s great to see PHA members who engage with big issues, not just industrial matters and ‘first world problems’.

]]> By: Fraancesca Beddie https://www.phansw.org.au/2012-the-year-of-remembering/#comment-146 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:42:13 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=578#comment-146 Further to my blog, you might be interested in the following event:

A regional perspective on tackling the legacy of the 1965-66 violence in Indonesia

Speaker: Didik Dyah Rahayu

Where: Quad Refectory Room H113 (enter via the main Quadrangle, SW corner),
The University of Sydney

Date: Thursday 14 February 2013

Time: 4-6pm

Attention has refocused recently on the 1965-66 killings and imprisonment of members and sympathisers of the Indonesian Communist Party, with the release of the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission report into the violence last year. The documentary ‘The Act of Killing’ by Joshua Oppenheimer, looking at perpetrators of the violence in North Sumatra has drawn worldwide attention to Indonesia.

Hear Didik Dyah Rahayu, an activist from Sekber ’65 (Joint Secretariat on 1965), an advocacy organisation based in Solo, Central Java speak about campaign developments in Indonesia on this issue. Sekber ‘65 involves former political prisoners, NGO activists and young students. It is part of the Coalition for Justice and Truth which organised the Year of Truth Telling in Indonesia and public hearings with victims of human rights abuses, including in Solo. In this presentation, she will talk about the activities of Sekber ‘65 and the interest in Indonesia now for addressing the 1965-66 violence.

Inquiries: Vannessa Hearman, mobile number 0407 023672 or vhearman@gmail.com.

]]> By: Stephen Gapps https://www.phansw.org.au/2012-the-year-of-remembering/#comment-139 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:21:23 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=578#comment-139 Great post, thank you!

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