TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Bedjo Untung, chairman of the Foundation on the Victims of the 1965 Killings (YPKP 65), said that the Indonesia Communist Party (PKI) was a victim of the 1965 massacre.
“PKI was clearly a victim, nobody knows that. They only know that the PKI are rebels; it’s fictitious,” he said after visiting the National Commission on Human Rights office on November 15.
Bedjo said that then-president Soekarno was respected by Asians, Africans, and South Americans and would not have been dethroned due to his popularity.
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“Indonesia was on the path to becoming a leading nation; the United States had planned to ruin it and there was CIA conspiracy to topple Soekarno and the target was to destroy PKI,” he said.
Earlier, Bedjo said that he doubted the government’s intention to take non-judicial proceedings to resolve the alleged human rights abuses between 1965 and 1966.
“For long, whoever the minister, they always promised the same. But it remains unclear what is non-judicial? How? When will it be done? What kind of form will it take?” Bedjo told Koran Tempo in October last year.
JULI HANTORO
