Indonesia president says regrets past rights abuses in country

by The Manila Times

Jan 11, 2023 1:51 pm

Jakarta, Jan 11, 2023 (AFP) -Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday expressed regret over mass human rights violations committed in the country's past, including a violent anti-communist purge in the 1960s and the disappearance of student protesters in the late 1990s.

More than half a million leftists were massacred across the Southeast Asian nation in the mid-1960s, a bloody spectacle that ushered in the long rule of dictator Suharto, whose fervent anti-communist stance remains decades on.

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