THERE IS NO JUSTICE WHILE IMPUNITY REMAINS

Ini tulisan istriku yang termuat dalam buklet pameran senirupaku 'THEY KILLED THEM' - tentang pembantaian terhadap kaum komunis di Indonesia tahun 1965. Pameran ini terselenggara awal tahun 2015 bertempat di Moors Building Contemporary Art Gallery Fremantle Western Australia. Semoga bisa segera kuterjemahkan. Dan aku sudah bilang ini sejak awal tahun 2015. Jadi sudah setahun belum kuterjemahkan. Nearly fifty years after the mass violence of 1965-66 - the killings and torture of more than a million people and the illegal detention of perhaps a million more people for 10 and more years - those responsible for these crimes against humanity have never been held accountable. These acts of mass murder and the systematic mass violence carried out against communists and left-wing sympathizers in Indonesia in 1965-66 facilitated the rise of the 32-year Suharto dictatorship. This brutal regime imposed an enforced silence over the true nature of the mass violence from the outset. Thi...