Healing the nation? Part 2 Recent attempts to address the Indonesian genocide after 1 October 1966

Since the PPHAM team presented its summary and recommendations in January 2023, the government has made several responses. At the time, President Jokowi acknowledged state responsibility for the 12 cases of crimes against humanity mentioned and expressed his regret. He did not make an apology, only expressing his sympathy to the victims. He pledged to provide restitution for direct victims and their families in a way that would not ‘negate the judicial solution,’ but did not specify the kind of solution he had in mind. Instead, Jokowi announced that the Coordinating Minister of Politics and Human Rights, Mahfud MD, would supervise this process of restoration of the rights of the victims. In response, Mahfud MD immediately announced that this would not mean that communism would be revived, and turned the focus to the restoration of the rights of exiles whose passports were revoked after 1965.