Even by the standards of post-totalitarian nations’ lingering paranoia the final month in Indonesia has seen a disheartening return to Suharto-era tropes of repression and neurosisA week ago I received a message from Janet DeNeefe,director of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. “I just wanted to let you know that the UWRF is being censored this year, and we have been told to remove all programs to attain with ‘1965’, and ” she wrote. “Or else next year they will not give us a permit to hold the festival.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com