KotakHitam Forum

Indonesia, 1965: hundreds and even thousands of people are arrested without warrant. Some did come back, the others lost without trace. Svet, one of the survivors of the Indonesian dark history recounts the memory she had of her father, whom she believes to be responsible for the 1965 tragedy.

More than 40 years on, the ex-survivors revisited prison camp in Plantungan, Central Java. A place they were isolated because they were and assumed as members of Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in a New Order era. They told a story about their suffering in silence, memories about loss, unspeakable trauma and human consciousness to remember the violence in a different period.