![]() The story focuses on Dimas Suryo, who is abroad with his colleagues when the 1965 killings begin. (The Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing shifted this to a degree.) Home, originally published in Indonesian and now translated into English, goes a way towards changing this. The bloodletting has been consistently glossed over, or denied, in official Indonesian histories, and even in the West it has received relatively little academic and general attention compared to, say, the Khmer Rouge genocide. This was the time of the September 30 Movement, which led to then-President Sukarno’s downfall, the installation of dictatorial Suharto as president, and then anti-Communist purges that left hundreds of thousands dead across the archipelago nation. ![]() ![]() Chudori, an editor at Indonesia’s renowned Tempo magazine, traces the tale of four friends working at a left-leaning news agency in 1965. ![]()
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