Cruelty of PKI

Cruelty of PKI

From Pikiran Rakyat

What? Gus Dur has apologized to the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)? You must be wrong! Have you heard correctly? So, in what capacity has Gus Dur made the apology? As a private person or as the President and leader of the Indonesian people?

Gus! Have you forgotten the terrors and cruelty practiced by the PKI?

Gus, have you not undergone the bitterness and revenge of the Indonesian people who have been victimized by the traitor of the nation, the PKI?

Gus, personally I cannot let a national leader so easily forgive the PKI because in 1965 my family and I were victims of the atrocity and cruelty of the PKI.

At that time I was abducted in order to weaken the spirit of my parents, who strongly opposed the PKI. Our family was a continuous target of PKI terror so that my mother became severely depressed and had to be treated in a mental hospital for many months.

Gus, I cannot prevent you from apologizing to the PKI in your personal capacity because you are an ulema and as one it is demanded of you to be forgiving. However, I am strongly opposed to you, as the President, apologizing to the PKI. Don't forget that you are now the leader of the Indonesian people and not just a commoner serving as the leader of NU.

Gus, if you do not retract your statement, the PKI will demand the revocation of Stipulation of the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly (MPRS) banning and disbanding the PkI. They will later set up a neo-PKI with a new face and name. In this case, we, the entire Indonesian people, will demand your accountability in this respect.

Gus, if you are insistent on this stance, either as a private person or a national leader, you must extend your apology not only to the PKI but also to the Dutch people and the Japanese because the Indonesian people stood against them and wrested their independence. They have also daringly defended their independence.

GUNAWAN

Garut, West Java