To the Indonesian Supreme Court
I received an on-line petition through email two days ago. It is about a campaign against censorship towards some history textbook in Indonesia.
According to a brief background on the petition, since 5th of March 2007, there have been 13 books subject to censorship primarily due to the failure of stating the involvement of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in a failed coup attempt which was so-called 30th September Movement (G30s). Historians no longer put the acronym PKI after G30S as many academic research disputed the fact that the PKI masterminded the coup. Meanwhile the government insists in their version that the PKI was involved in the coup and the acronym should therefore be added on. As quoted in the jakartapost.com (15 March 2007), the announcement launched by the supreme court stated that the books are not only failed to state the 'facts' but challenge 'accepted truth', which could create public disorder.
I am appalled by this remark as only a horrible prick could make such announcement. It is perhaps completely out of my range of knowledge why the supreme court could make that comments.
Allow me to ask what does the supreme court refer to accepted truth in the statement above? Who does accept this version of truth? Of millions people in Indonesia who are fortunate enough to attend to school, how many people will actually believe that PKI was involved? They might have accepted it as the only truth regarding the coup. Yet i am convinced that those who once believed your story may have changed their perspective as many version of historical writings on that event were published. I ask again, therefore, whose fucking truth is challenged in this sense? It is obviously your truth. I also believe that your fuckin brain would reject that truth as well but since your master keeps standing behind you with the stick, there is no option left.
I would like to admit with sincerity about my experience of being a student in Indonesia before Reform movement. I was one of the fortunate people who experienced your brainwashed program, which was called 'history subject' at school. At first i was so proud of you soon the film screening on the coup has finished. Every time the history class finished, i came out of the class with a grin on my face. "I've learnt the truth in our history". Now, i realise and is very pleased to arrive at the conclusion that what happened then was not learning history but learning your political perspective. And i stop thinking of you and everyone who tried and will try to feed me and others with your truth as the hero of the nation. In fact, you are just a bunch of arsehole. So stick that truth up your fucking arse!
The 'accepted truth' that you have mentioned is built by separating fathers, mothers, sons and daughters from their beloved families through the most brutal and barbarous methods: beheading their heads and incarcerating them in camps and wished they would rot there. Not satisfied with all of these, you told the whole nation of your sexually violent fantasy with the story of fucking nympho women who had an orgy party to cut off the generals' dicks. You fucking ruined their families who tried to recover after long imprisonment by blocking their access to work for the government offices, and built monuments and museums which have the archives of your heroic acts.
It is apparently not enough for you to support the already-wobbly foundation of truth that you have built. Since many hidden stories are unfolded either through books or testimonies, you realised that you can not disseminate your deceitful story. Now you are aiming at students whom you thought easy to be deceived. What kind of generation that we would have in the future if they have to believe all fabricated truth? Would anyone be happy to have fucking zombie-like students who are always nodding to what people say? Would you be proud if your children come home and tell you during dinner conversation that they answered all of the teachers history questions with that 'accepted truth'? If you would, then i am dying to see if you can keep your fucking head up once your kids know that what you have told them was an utterly shit.
It could be wise of you if you can stop now and realise that any attempts of fabricating truth is futile. Banning the books as another method would seem to be fizzer. This attempt would only reveal to the whole nation that you are in a state of panic. The more than 30 years foundation of truth has been eroded by survivors' stories albeit they have risked themlseves for doing it. Or if you just want to keep disgracing yourself, please do it as long as you want to and it will do nothing to make us believing your story, you fucking idot prick!
Indignantly yours
spew-it-all
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