Carpet reads 'Historical Truth', book reads 'Never forget history' In the hope of defusing growing demands to issue an official apology and provide compensation and rehabilitation to survivors and victim's of families of the 1965 anti-communist purge, in which as many as 1 million communists and left-wing sympathisers were killed and thousands others interned without trial, the government has announced it will hold a national symposium in April to seek recommendations on how to resolve one of the darkest chapters in Indonesia's history. Kompas - May 28, 2016 |