Posts with tag: May 1998
Indonesia’s human rights movement sinks deeper into disarray as Prabowo rises
Human Rights, PoliticsThe meeting between senior officials of the Gerindra party and several pro-democracy activists from the 1997/1998 period and their family members illustrates that although Prabowo has described himself “a staunch defender of human rights”, his past continues to be a concern.
Jokowi is not fooling anyone with latest nod to victims of rights abuses
Analysis, Human RightsPresident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo last week met participants of Indonesia’s longest running human rights protest, Kamisan (“Thursdays”). Dr Ken Setaiwan writes that despite the promising photographs that came out of the meeting, his government has little interest in pursuing justice for past crimes.
Could violence against the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia happen again?
20 Years After Soeharto, Analysis, History, Politics, SocietyThis month marks 20 years since the riots and violence that erupted in cities including Jakarta, Medan and Solo, and mainly targeted Indonesia's ethnic Chinese population. In light of the recent surge in anti-Chinese sentiment in Indonesia, Dr Jemma Purdey questions whether violence like that of May 1998 could happen again.