(Deutsch) EKSIL – von Lola Amaria

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Posted on 10:11 PM in Activities, History & Overview, Indonesia

Discussion with Akbar Yumni about Daerah Hilang by Bachtiar Siagian – The Forbidden Scenes and the Forgotten Filmmaker

Monday, 21 August 2023, 18:00 Uhr, Berlin Global Village, Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin

Bakhtiar Siagian was probably one of Indonesia’s most important left-wing film directors and thinkers. During his career from 1955 to 1965, which was marked by political censorship and persecution, he wrote and directed 13 feature films. This made him one of the most prolific Indonesian directors of his time. His socially critical films addressed poverty, injustice and powerlessness. Already under Sukarno’s presidency, provoking scenes were cut out. After ... read more

Posted on 12:18 PM in Activities, History & Overview, Human Rights, Indonesia

Book launch and discussion with Soe Tjen Marching about her two new books, “Yang Tak Kunjung Padam” and “Tiga Kitab”

  Monday, 15 May 2023, 7 pm, Berlin Global Village, Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin

 

Since the mid-1950s, the American government had already been worried about the growth of the Communist party in Indonesia. Later, the CIA started funding a section of the Indonesian army with weapons and money to eradicate the communists and left-wing sympathisers. From 1965 to 1967, approximately one to two million people were murdered by Soeharto’s army in the name of suppression of the Communist Party, while million ... read more

Posted on 04:29 PM in Activities, History & Overview, Human Rights, Indonesia, Transitional Justice

(Deutsch) Antikommunismus und Massenmord: Indonesien 1965/66 als Blaupause

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Posted on 12:32 PM in Activities, democracy, Justice, History & Overview, Human Rights, Indonesia

President Widodo Should Revoke Award for Human Rights Violator – Committing Crimes Against Humanity is Not for Celebration

London, New York, Berlin
Saturday 14 August, 2021

President Widodo Should Revoke Award for Human Rights Violator
Committing Crimes Against Humanity is Not for Celebration

TAPOL, ETAN and Watch Indonesia! strongly condemn President Joko Widodo’s decision to grant ‘Bintang Jasa Utama’, one the highest national awards, to Eurico Guterres on Thursday, 12 August 2021.

Guterres, an anti-independence militia leader in Timor-Leste, was one of the key figures who led and participated in a series of massacres and destruction in his homeland prior to ... read more

Posted on 01:09 PM in Activities, democracy, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Justice, History & Overview, Human Rights, Indonesia, East Timor, Press Releases

Zur aktuellen Lage in Westpapua – Gespräch mit Dr. Fransina Yoteni

Wednesday, 11 December 2019 from 18:30-20:30 at the office of Watch Indonesia!, Urbanstr. 114, 10967 Berlin

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Seit mehr als 50 Jahren herrscht politische Unruhe in West Papua.

Mitte August 2019 erreichte der Konflikt eine neue Eskalationsstufe. Ausgelöst durch
durch rassistische Diskriminierung und Übergriffe auf papuanische Studierende in mehreren javanischen Städten flammten akute Unruhen auf, denen mit einem hohen Maß an staatlicher Repression begegnet wurde. Sie stellen die schlimmsten Eskalationen der Gewalt in West Papua seit dem Sturz der ... read more

Posted on 02:55 PM in Activities, History & Overview, Human Rights, Indonesia, Papua

Grassroots Response to the Impact of 1965 Mass Violence

 

Wednesday, 11 September 2019 from 18:30-21:30
at the office of Watch Indonesia!
Urbanstr. 114, 10967 Berlin

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zu einer Diskussionsveranstaltung mit dem Historiker Dr. Baskara T. Wardaya in den Räumlichkeiten von Watch Indonesia! Baskara untersuchte in zahlreichen Publikationen den innen- und außenpolitischen Kontext der antikommunistischen Massenmorde 1965 in Indonesien. Er zeigte, wie eine neue Wirtschaftsordnung nach der Beseitigung Sukarnos und der Kommunistischen Partei Indonesiens (PKI) das Tor für großangelegte Aktivitäten westlicher Rohstoffunternehmen öffnete. Am Beispiel von Papua ... read more

Posted on 02:16 PM in democracy, History & Overview, History & Overview, Human Rights, Human Rights, Indonesia, Politics & Democracy

(Deutsch) Berlin: Filmvorführung/Screening of SVET by Kartika Pratiwi

Posted on 01:32 PM in democracy, History & Overview, Human Rights, Indonesia, Society & Religion

Marhaen: An Indonesian Journal from 1980s West Berlin

Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG), May 10, 2019

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In 2011 the Library of Southeast Asian Studies of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt acquired the library of the Stiftung Asienhaus (“Foundation Asia House”, then located in Essen, now in Cologne), an association of several German NGOs working on Asia. Among the many uncatalogued materials of this collection we recently found three volumes of a small Indonesian-language leftist journal named Marhaen: Analisa & Berita Bulanan.

This journal was published in ... read more

Posted on 02:33 AM in History & Overview, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: 1965, Germany, Indonesia, press freedom, Sukarno

(Deutsch) »Ich will nur, dass du am Leben bist«

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German version

Posted on 07:07 AM in democracy, History & Overview, Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: democracy, Germany, dictator Suharto, Indonesia, Megawati Sukarnoputri, human rights, military, PDI, Prabowo, impunity, students, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Wiranto