Of course it's political. At the time the Indonesian "army" was political. And it was a political killing the "army" carried out. It's about time the TNI war criminals had the guts to defend themselves, rather than banning allegations against them. And the cowardice of the politicians is as shameful as the cowardice of the Indonesian mercenary "army".

If it was the truth, it wouldn't be expurgated. To expurgate is to remove offensive material. The Indonesian Government, who (laughingly) work for the Indonesian people have already banned it, not expurgated it, so I don't really understand the previous post.

It embarrasses the army.

It was not Minister of Grins who banned it, it was the army's interests. Our Minister of Grins should continue grinning but censorship is an indicator of guilt. The government's message with the ban is "Yes it is true and we are very embarrassed. Please, if you really have to watch it, do so, but we have some heavies twisting our arms here so we'll ban it. Please consider this ban as our small way to help promote this film."

To prevent many future embarrassments the government should begin the campaign to explain that during the New Order, Suharto made Indonesia a colonialist country and we are all sorry for that.

Dear peterR!

Quite interesting, the account of John Pilger! Most people are aware of the huge influx of the US government and the Ford foundation during the New Order of Dictator Suharto to see Indonesia as the last barrier against communism and nobody in the west cared about the genocide during the Indonesian killings of 1965–1966, were more than 500.000 people died or disappeared.Well the last line of said web page fits also very well to today's struggle: “The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

Thanks Peter, I've read the article by John Pilger. Yes, quite revealing.