TEMPO.CO, Jakarta-In response to a question related to recommendations to be made in the anti-communist symposium, Indonesian Military commander Gatot Nurmantyo said that the government would not issue an apology to victims of the 1965 tragedy.
“Which government that will apologize? I must warn you not to say that the government will apologize,” Gatot said when attending the anti-communist symposium held at Balai Kartini, Jakarta, on Thursday, June 2, 2016.
Gatot claimed that the government’s decision not to issue an apology has been final.
“There will be no apology. That’s just a rumor spread by government’s traitor. [President] Joko Widodo will never issue [an apology],” Gatot added.
Gatot refused to comment on the consolidation of recommendations made in the anti-communist symposium and in the previous one titled “Dissecting the 1965 Tragedy” held in April 2016.
Anti-communist symposium organizing committee chief Lt. Gen. (ret.) Kiki Syahnakri hopes that he can hold a dialogue to discuss recommendations made in the national symposium on the 1965 Tragedy. Kiki said that recommendations made in the symposium that he held would be handed over to the government by National Resilience Institute (Lemhanas) governor Agus Widjojo.
YOHANES PASKALIS