indonesian_open documentary on SBS

[Wittman, Leonie]

Monday 30 May/Tuesday 31 May 1.00 AM on SBS TV

One for the night owls or the VCR!

 

1:00                  DOCUMENTARY: SHADOW PLAY - This documentary looks at one of the defining periods of the twentieth century history when more than 500,000 Indonesians were slaughtered as President Sukarno was swept from power by President Suharto's New Order. New light is shed on the shadowy events behind the terror campaign which took place after six of Indonesia's top generals were dragged from their beds and killed on September 30, 1965. The Indonesian communist party - the PKI - was blamed for the failed coup attempt. President Sukarno's alliance with the PKI, at the height of the Cold War, made him deeply unpopular in the West. CIA involvement in the coup has never been confirmed but communiqués from American, British and Australian diplomats reveal their readiness to back the army against the previously-powerful PKI. This included complicity in the propaganda war waged by the Indonesian army. Reports from journalists on the ground in Indonesia were suppressed or reinterpreted as describing a civil war instead of a one-sided massacre. Indonesian, American and Australian diplomats and journalists are amongst those who provide powerful testimonies on the hidden history of this era which continues to reverberate in Indonesian politics today. Directed by Chris Hilton. (Commissioned by SBS Independent, in English)  

 

 

 

Leonie Wittman

R/Senior Curriculum Adviser

 

Languages Unit

Curriculum K-12 Directorate

NSW Department of Education & Training

3a Smalls Rd

Ryde NSW 2112

 

Tel: 61 2 9886 7681

Fax: 61 2 9886 7160

Email: leonie.wittman at det.nsw.edu.au

 

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