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This article talks about two families who experienced the 1965 tragedy. I put it deliberately in the middle of the movement struggle and civil society actions against government’s plan, via the Cultural Minister, to re-write its own version of history.

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Indonesian Women Coalition makes a press conference on 13 June 2025, and invites 8 resource people. Mike Verawati says that the objective of the press conference is to respond to Fadli Zon’s interview with Uni Lubis who states that rape in May 1998 is nothing but rumour. Mike says that the Rape tragedy in May 1998is not fiction, and cannot be ignored just because there is no significant data.

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Sunarman Sukamtois the initiator of a network of individuals and organisations with similar interests in disability issue. He talks about disability issue during the discussion and coordination of the Solo Vision for Inclusion Network on Wednesday (18/6), and suggest that it is not that interesting of an issue for a number of people compared to other issues.

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In a webinar conducted by Perempuan Mahardhika (28/05), Ita F. Nadia says that it is time for women to rise and redraw the direction of their fight because women are being shunned by the State when it comes to women history. Ita represents Ruas Indonesia – a space for women archive and history - that collects documents and archives about women’s movement that are taken out of eliminated from the history. "We try to relive memory about women’s movement and women leaders that history does not recognise. WE are conducting one advocacy or campaign to reject re-writing history or revision of history by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs," she says.

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Contectual Educationis context-oriented education, which is nothing new as it has been implemented by Islamic Schools to prepare students for life. Other religions have similar education – i.e. Pastoral Schools within the Catholic religion. The base of Contextual Education is students’ experience, not lessons.

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Press Release – Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia

Depok, 4th June 2025 – Faculty of Social and Political Science the University of Indonesia (FISIP UI) in collaboration with Center International Relations Studies (CIReS) and Indonesian Institute of Advanced International Studies (INADIS) conducts an “Critical Mineral Exploitation, Fulfilment of the Rights of Indigenous People in Sulawesi, in relations to Indonesian Foreign Policy” on Wednesday (04/06) at Auditorium Juwono Sudarsono, FISIP UI.

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During a press conference by the Indonesian Women’s Coalition moderated by Mike Verawati on Tuesday (17/06), Nursyahbani Katjasungkana states that she tolerates one version of history writing. For 32 years, the people have been fed with information on 1965 incident by the military – a version of the State interpretation of political event. She also suggests that the Indonesian government denies the rape in May 1998 as the report and its attachments were presented at the United Nations Assembly.

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The government (Ministry of Culture) is re-writing history. It expects to complete the measure by August 2025. There are, however, significant push-back. Re-writing should be based on the assumption that community history should be nurtured in the community, through research by academics and researchers to ensure incorporation of a variety of viewpoints, and not dependent on one interpretation that could potentially distort history or marginalize women in history. Why do women and young people have to push back against re-writing history? During IG Live moderated by Dianah Karmilah, Indonesia Woman Coalision and Ruas Indonesia invite Astrid Reza.