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Recognition, Apology, and Restoration of Indonesians' Past Maltreatments of People Labeled as Communists

Recognition, Apology, and Restoration of Indonesians' Past Maltreatments of People Labeled as Communists

Idhamsyah Eka Putra, Any Rufaedah
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781522530329|ISBN10: 1522530320|EISBN13: 9781522530336
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch017
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Putra, Idhamsyah Eka, and Any Rufaedah. "Recognition, Apology, and Restoration of Indonesians' Past Maltreatments of People Labeled as Communists." Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age, edited by Bruce L. Cook, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 243-255. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch017

APA

Putra, I. E. & Rufaedah, A. (2018). Recognition, Apology, and Restoration of Indonesians' Past Maltreatments of People Labeled as Communists. In B. Cook (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age (pp. 243-255). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch017

Chicago

Putra, Idhamsyah Eka, and Any Rufaedah. "Recognition, Apology, and Restoration of Indonesians' Past Maltreatments of People Labeled as Communists." In Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age, edited by Bruce L. Cook, 243-255. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch017

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Abstract

Using social psychological perspectives, this paper aims to (1) explore how communism was socially constructed in Indonesia and why communism attributes labeled to a person can lead to negative effects, such as social exclusions. (2) After that, it presents findings of our study explaining that reminding people that human is naturally good and kind can reduce the negative effects of the communism stigma. (3) This chapter also discusses issues of past maltreatments to people labeled as communists in Indonesia, and why asking the government to apologize on behalf of Indonesians has not succeeded so far – the government refuses to apologize. To this matter, it is argued that as a start, what can be done is apologizing to the victims of violence and injustice because of the communist party of Indonesia (PKI) stigma, and the offsprings who don't know the political turbulence. From here, it may be possible that the truth can slowly be revealed.

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