The Act of Killing
2012
- Director:
- Joshua Oppenheimer
- Studio:
- Final Cut for Real, DK Film
- Starring:
- Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik
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Following the 1965 30 September Movement, Indonesian president Sukarno was overthrown by General Suharto. A key event in the transition to the New Order was the killing of over a million alleged communists between 1965 and 1966, including Sukarno's supporters, members of the Communist Party of Indonesia, labor and farming unions, intellectuals, and Chinese Indonesians. Backed by Western governments, the paramilitary groups and preman gangsters responsible for the massacres, the biggest being the Pancasila Youth, gained power in Indonesia.