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Published on: 9/7/2008
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Kate McGregor is a lecturer in South East Asian History at the University of Melbourne.
Kate McGregor: First of all, very shortly after the fall of Suharto we saw one of the first things that President Habibie did was to lift the ban on press censorship, so we had immediately an opportunity for a number of new press outlets to open, whether they were—also television but also written newspapers—and one of the most pressing questions, one of the first questions that was addressed in this more open environment was the circumstances of the 1965 coup attempt.
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Kate McGregor: Certainly some people put forward the view that we should forget the past and move on, but it does tend to be groups who've also perhaps benefited indirectly from this violence.
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Kate McGregor is Lecturer in South-East Asian History at the University of Melbourne.
She is the author of History in Uniform: Military Ideology and the Construction of Indonesia's Past, and is currently undertaking a major research project on Islam.
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Author: Kate McGregor (article)