PADANG, INDONESIA (AFP) - Bookseller Yanto Tjahaja was tending to his shop when soldiers burst through the door and confiscated a dozen titles over claims they violated one of Indonesia's most sensitive taboos: communism.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PADANG, INDONESIA - Bookseller Yanto Tjahaja was tending to his shop when soldiers burst through the door and confiscated a dozen titles over claims they violated one of Indonesia's most sensitive taboos: communism.
And Indonesians are still warned from an early age about the dangers of a communist revival in the nation of 260 million, now the world's third-biggest democracy. Rights groups have called on President Joko Widodo, who is running for re-election, to end the raids. Its power grew as a faltering economy left millions impoverished, but the party was blamed for a failed 1965 coup attempt that left top military personnel dead.
The Act of Killing, an Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary, highlighted the brutality through the eyes of unpunished perpetrators as they brazenly re-enacted decades-old murders of leftists.
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