The Act of Killing and Indonesia's ethnic Chinese

In the wake of the announcement of an Oscar nomination for the documentary film, The Act of Killing, Robert Cribb and I were pretty astounded by news reports coming out of China and Hong Kong referring to the genocide and mass murder of ethnic Chinese Indonesians in the 1965-66 killings and also in rioting in Indonesia in May 1998.

Here is our response, 'Analysing the Act of Killing'.

Breaking the Silence on 1965

Kate McGregor and I are co-editors of a small series for the Herb Feith Translation series, translating testimonies from survivors and perpetrators of the 1965-66 killlings, into English.

We recently contributed this piece to The Conversation, 'Half a century on, victims' voices haunt a democratic Indonesia'.

Modi and Prabowo

I recently wrote a piece for the Jakarta Post drawing a line of comparison between new Indian PM, Nahrendra Modi and Indonesian Presidential candidate, Prabowo Subianto, both of whom have been banned from entering the United States at some stage, for transgressions against human rights,

US backflip on Modi ban a filip for Prabowo

Meanwhile, Prabowo and his team have maintained that he is a fervent defender of human rights, Prabowo: Saya pembela HAM.