Long Reads: Michael Vann on Indonesia's Killing Fields (Part 2)
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The New Order and Anti-Semitism
The new order regime promotes am eboism. A ebu means mother, and this is the idea that the woman's place is in the home. Thereis strict censorship, on the press and on the film. You could not import chinese printed material into indanesia. Films are very closely censored. But violence was a was tolerated in indanesian films. This leads to a golden age of indanesian horror film. In the 19 eighties, under the new order, horror was really the only possible creative outlet for indinesian film makers. And i think that servese is an amazing metaphor for the new orders culture war on the the lower classes of indanesia
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