Shadow Play: Indonesia's Years of Living Dangerously (a.k.a. Shadow Play: Indonesia's Forgotten Holocaust)
Soros Documentary Fund An account of the slaughter of more than 500,000 people in Indonesia for their suspected involvement in the communist PKI Party, and the period of history that triggered it, as Indonesia’s first president, Sukamo, was swept from power and General Suharto took over for the next...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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Vagabond Films
2003
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:bc8d7389-9354-4ebc-997f-d243c2268f08 |
| Summary: | Soros Documentary Fund
An account of the slaughter of more than 500,000 people in Indonesia for their suspected involvement in the communist PKI Party, and the period of history that triggered it, as Indonesia’s first president, Sukamo, was swept from power and General Suharto took over for the next 32 years. The documentary takes advantage of declassified documents to try to reconstruct what really happened, and also show the extent to which Western powers were complicit in the anti-Communist purges that ended up killing hundreds of thousands of people, including six senior officials. Interviews with the journalists who covered the story reveal the secret war of propaganda and media manipulation waged by the Indonesian army and actively aided by the governments of the U.S., Britain, and Australia. Indonesian witnesses, foreign diplomats and journalists give their accounts of the major events, summarizing Sukarno’s background, his rise to power and presidency, as well as Indonesia’s colonial past, its demography and its external influences. Intertwined with archival footage and interviews, are three personal stories which show that 30 years after the atrocities took place, the past still haunts the Indonesians. |
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| Published: | 2003 |