Survivors / Penyintas Pembunuhan Massal 1965-1966 Menuntut Inggris Untuk Meminta Maaf *Observer Special Report Indonesia 2021 – Slaughter in Indonesia: Britain’s secret propaganda war

After Observer report, families say the move would help heal country’s wounds

The killings also paved the way for General Suharto to seize power from left-leaning President Sukarno and establish a corrupt dictatorship that lasted 32 years. Bedjo Untung, 73, now head of the Indonesian Institute for the Study of the 1965/66 Massacre (YPKP65), yesterday demanded an apology and full explanation from the UK government.

“We, as the victims, are angry. Reconciliation is impossible without truth, so please reveal the truth.”

Just 17, Bedjo had joined a student organisation that shared the same “anti-imperialist, socialist-leaning” ideology as Sukarno. His father was a respected teacher in his village in Pemalang, Central Java. Neither Bedjo nor his father had ever been PKI members, he said. However, his father was imprisoned for 11 years.

Bedjo was later arrested and imprisoned as a political prisoner for nine years by the Suharto regime. During this time, he was tortured, subjected to electric shocks and beatings, and forced to labour on plantations. He blames the mass murders on the imperial powers in supporting Suharto out of their own self-interest:

“I urge UK, USA, Australia and other countries who took advantage of the mass killing of innocent Indonesian people, members of Indonesian Communist party and the followers of Sukarno, to admit responsibility.”

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