Joko Widodo has acknowledged 'gross human rights violations' during Indonesia's bloody history, vowing to compensate the victims and their families.
The Indonesian president expressed 'deep regret' over killing of 500,000 in the mid-1960s.
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has expressed deep regret over gross human rights violations during the nation' tumultuous post-colonial past, going back to the mass killing of communists and suspected sympathisers in the mid-1960s. He cited 11 other rights incidents, spanning a period between 1965 and 2003, including the killing and abduction of students blamed on security forces during protests against Suharto's autocracy in the late 1990s.
Victims, their relatives and rights groups have questioned whether Jokowi's government is serious about holding anyone accountable for past atrocities. Usman Hamid of Amnesty International said victims should receive reparations and serious crimes of the past need to be resolved "through judicial means".
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