Herb Feith Foundation Event: Addressing the Legacies of the 1965-66 Mass Violence in Indonesia 50 Years On

Australia-Indonesia Centre

To mark International Human Rights Day the Herb Feith Foundation is pleased to announce a special event including a photo exhibition, book launch and lecture by the renowned Indonesian human rights lawyer Nursyahbani Katjasungkana and academic Professor Saskia Wieringa. 
Key figures in coordinating the International People’s Tribunal on 1965 held in The Hague in November 2015, our speakers will present a lecture, 'Explaining the November 2015 International People’s Tribunal on the 1965 Indonesian violence: Aims and outcomes'.
Together they will discuss the preliminary findings of the tribunal, its desired outcomes and Indonesian responses to it so far. Their presentation will include discussion of the evidence presented at the tribunal and its significance. This will be followed by an extensive Q and A session for audience members.
Nursyahbani Katjasungkana is General Coordinator of IPT65 and National Coordinator of Indonesian Association of Legal Aid Society for Women. Saskia E. Wieringa is Chair of the Foundation IPT 1965 and Chair of Gender and Women's Same-sex Relations Crossculturally at the University of Amsterdam.
We will display the photo exhibition The Art of Living A Photo Exhibition of Women Survivors of Indonesia’s Violence in 1965 curated by the Asia Justice and Rights organisation
And launch the third book in the Herb Feith series ‘Translating Accounts of the 1965-66 mass violence in Indonesia’, Forbidden Memories: Women’s Experiences of 1965 in Eastern Indonesia, Monash University Publishing, 2015.

Monash University

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