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.
JAKARTA, Indonesia —
The killings led to the collapse of the now-banned Indonesian Communist Party , once among the biggest in the world behind those of China and the Soviet Union. The president also mentioned the murder and abduction of dozens of student protesters and activists during mass street rallies in 1998 that brought down the three-decade dictatorship of Suharto.
He acknowledged rights abuses in the restive easternmost province of Papua, including a 2003 army and police operation that left dozens of civilians dead and where officers were accused of murder, torture and abduction.
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