by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
I spent my childhood in Jakarta. Sometimes, we went for a holiday in Yogyakarta – and we would visit our paternal grandma’s grave. There was only one gravestone there, and that was grandma’s. That was why one day I asked where grandpa’s grave...
by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
Last year, in my home village, Bireuen, North Ache, we had a family gathering. My grandmother was ill at the time. I don’t feel too close to my family, especially this grandmother, the mother of my stepmother. I didn’t have any specific emotion when I...
by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
Around 2009, when I was quite broken-hearted, I stumbled upon a book by the late Sulami and Sudjinah, two Gerwani leaders who continued their activism after 1965. I finished reading the book on my way from Bekasi to Jakarta. Their stories made my life problems felt so...
by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
My father runs a home-based tailor business. Many of the tailors who work for with my father were from Klaten and Solo. In the 80s, when I was in primary school, one day I found the back room – where the noise normally only came from the crowds of sewing machines –...
by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
I am opting to remain anonymous while sharing my story here. This is partly because my family has asked me not to pursue a project to learn about my maternal grandfather. A few years ago, I found out he was imprisoned following the events of 1965.My parents rarely...
by admin | Aug 20, 2025 | English
On the 30th of September, Indonesia always meets its dark, unresolved history in the past that keeps haunting in the present. Although slow and often facing dead ends, memory workers and human rights activists keep the conversations and discourses about 1965 alive....