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GA-00485 2000-05-27 Algemeen Dagblad rel A

‘Indonesië moet werken aan nationale verzoening’ (Indonesia harus mengupayakan rekonsiliasi nasional)

'Indonesia must work on national reconciliation'

Algemeen Dagblad (2000-05-27, Nina Eberlijn, Jakarta): Human Rights Minister Hasballah Saad discusses the near-impossibility of prosecuting Suharto-era abuses and a South African-style truth commission; Kontras cites ~16,000 missing. Sulami, jailed 20 years as a Gerwani activist, says reconciliation needs victims' test

GA-02677 2011 rel C

Derailed: Transitional Justice in Indonesia since the Fall of Soeharto (ICTJ and KontraS, 2011)

ICTJ and KontraS report (March 2011) on transitional justice since 1998: inquiries launched then stalled, Attorney General inaction on Komnas HAM files, zero convictions in human rights courts, reparations tied to missing verdicts. Context for the impunity facing 1965 victims.

GA-02674 2016 rel B

Still Denied: Right to Rehabilitation for Torture Victims during the Mass Detention of 1965 in Indonesia (AJAR submission, 2016)

Still Denied: Right to Rehabilitation for Torture Victims during the 1965 Mass Detention (AJAR, 2016)

AJAR and partner submission to UN Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez (Oct 2016) arguing 1965 detainees' right to rehabilitation for torture remains denied, citing Law 26/2000 and stalled Komnas HAM findings; partners include women survivors' groups.

GA-02899 2025 rel C

I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: A Life Experience of a Former 1965-1966 Political Prisoner in Indonesia (Hidayat, 2025)

I Don't Want to Die for Nothing in Prison: life of a former 1965-66 political prisoner (Hidayat, 2025)

2025 single-case phenomenological study of an 86-year-old male former political prisoner (interviews via KontraS, 2024): union worker, arrest in 1966, torture, forced labour at Tangerang, Nusakambangan and Buru, later Aksi Kamisan activism. Male testimony; context only.