The Indonesian Government Is Sentenced To Genocide PKI In Today's Memory, November 13, 2015

International People's Tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands which found Indonesia guilty of committing genocide against members and sympathizers of the PKI. (Trinal 165.org)

JAKARTA Memories of today, eight years ago, November 13, 2015, Indonesia was found guilty by the International People Tribunal or the International People's Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. Indonesia is considered to have perpetuated genocide against leaders to sympathizers of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI).

Previously, the September 30th Movement (G30S) rebellion was believed to be a stain on the history of the Indonesian nation. The PKI is considered the mastermind and guilty in the G30S. This narrative makes everything related to the PKI crushed.

The cruelty of the G30S 1965 was not an easy event to forget from the memory of all Indonesian people. The kidnapping and murder of a series of army generals (AD) is considered a heinous act. The people were furious, not playing.

The chaos was immediately taken over by the Kostrad Commander, General Suharto. He moved quickly to take over the vacuum of power of the Army. The result was brilliant. Insurgency can be extinguished. Suharto also continued to look for the mastermind. The search stuck to a party, the PKI.

The narrative made the whole of Indonesia want the PKI to be disbanded immediately. A series of students chose to take to the streets to perpetuate their protests. They asked President Soekarno to act decisively against the party bearing the hammer. Instead of caring, Bung Karno did not want to take firm action.

Bung Karno's indecisiveness became the master's weapon. Bung Karno's power was increasingly pressed by the people. He had to take a quick decision. The March Eleven Order (Supersemar) came out. The letter notabene gave Suharto full power to clean up the situation.

Far from being burned. Suharto actually acted further. He chose to perpetuate the dissolution of the PKI and the total cleaning of his sympathizers in 1965-1966. The people also caught fire in anger at the PKI.

All the people participated in perpetuating the search and massacre of leaders to PKI sympathizers. Bung Karno loyalists from the PKI were immediately dealt with firmly. It is said that the cleaning incident claimed millions of lives.

Suharto's efforts to disband and 'clean up' the PKI carried out by Suharto certainly cannot be separated from intelligence figures who support it. Through special operations, for example, a raising operation was carried out by utilizing mass support for the dissolution of the PKI.

"This raising operation was carried out in stages by utilizing the chronology from the issuance of Supersemar, to the issuance of the decision of the Extraordinary Military Court to arrest PKI figures. This achievement was responded quite well by the masses and military circles who were pros with Suharto," explained Sarah Nuraini Siregar in the book Intelijen and Suharto's Power (2022).

The problem of the PKI massacre is something that is often discussed in the years after. All because the state does not have the initiative to open up the problem openly. Even the PKI label is still often heard to repulse critics and opponents of government politics.

In fact, this problem not only attracted the attention of the whole of Indonesia. The world also pays attention to the massacre case commanded by the government. Human rights activists in the world began to speak up. At its peak, the massacre case prompted Indonesia to be tried at the International People's Session which took place in The Hague on 10-13 November 2015.

Indonesia became a defendant. Even though the trial was perpetuated in absentia because Indonesia was not present. As a result, the judge sentenced Indonesia to commit genocide and slavery in the 1965-1966 incident on November 13, 2015.

Indonesia doesn't really care about the decision. The government of the Joko Widodo era also asked the world audience not to dredge up Indonesia's past.

The trial, which was led by a number of human rights defense activists, involved judges and prosecutors from various countries, by placing the State of the Republic of Indonesia as defendants. The trial was conducted in absentia because Indonesia was not present. The prosecutor charged the state for committing mass killings and slavery in the 1965 incident.

The results of the trial were not binding, but the organizers intended to bring the results to the UN Human Rights Council in the hope that the United Nations Resolution would come out. Thus, it is hoped that the international community will press on Indonesia to meet the demands in the decision