INDONESIA’S RULERS ARE WHITEWASHING THE CRIMES OF SUHARTO
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✍️ The Indonesian government is planning to revise the country's national history curriculum, led by Minister of Culture Fadli Zon, who is accused of attempting to whitewash the country's dark past and suppress the memory of human rights violations.
👉 The proposed curriculum revision aims to erase significant contributions from women, ethnic minorities, and left-wing political movements. 👉 The revision seeks to rehabilitate the legacy of former dictator Suharto and suppress the memory of human rights violations. 👉 Critics argue that this is a thinly veiled attempt to promote a narrow ethnonationalist and patriarchal vision of Indonesia's past. 👉 The revision is seen as a threat to decades of hard-won efforts by progressive historians, civil society actors, and survivors of state violence to foster a more inclusive and democratic understanding of Indonesian history.
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