by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
Dayu is my cousin, the son of my aunt Niniek. I took this photograph for the exhibition Stories Left Untold in iCan Gallery, Yogyakarta, in 2015. That day, I went to my aunt Niniek’s house in Jakarta to interview her about our family’s life after grandfather was gone....
by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
This is Luweng Grubug, a vertical cave located in Wonosari, Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta. It is known as a killing location of communist party members and supporters. Between November 1965 to January 1966, around 1500 people have been killed in this place.In the beginning...
by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
My aunt, Siwi Kartini, who we usually call Bu Niniek, is the youngest sibling of my father’s. She was born in 1959. When grandfather, Boentardjo Amaroen Kartowinoto, was disappeared in 1965, Bu Niniek was only 6 year-old. After her mother’s – my grandmother’s – death...
by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
I was born and bred in exile, where we constantly had to move from one village to the other, each time assuming a different name. So change for me was the only constant. What never changed, however, was my late father and mother’s “meetings”. They would always go to...
by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
When my grandpa was “picked up” from his house in 1965, he said exactly that: that he was not afraid, because he had done nothing wrong. Still, he was disappeared, just like that.My grandma, who had lost her husband – when I asked her why she didn’t just leave...