REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, By: HM. Soedibyo

On April 18-19, 2016   the Symposium on the Tragedy of 1965 was held in  Aryaduta Hotel, Jakarta. The Symposium  was initiated by  Lieut. Gen (Ret) Agus Widjoyo as the member of the Association of the Youth of the Nation and  officially  taken over by the National Commission on Human Right and Sidarto Danusubroto, a politician member of the Council of the Presidential Adviser to convey the  idea to The Coordinating Minister of Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Lieut. Gen (Ret) Luhut B Pandjaitan.  

Most probably the proposal was approved by President Jokowi,  realizing that officially on behalf of the Government,  the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs  Lieut. Gen (Ret) Luhut B Pandjaitan agreed with the proposal of the National Commission on Human Right and a member of the Council of the Presidential Adviser Sidarto Danusubroto.  The Coordinating Minister for the Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Lieut. General  (Ret)Luhut B Pandjatan appointed Lieut. General (Ret) Agus Widjoyo, who is also incidentally The Governor of The National Resilience Institute to lead the Steering Committee  of the Symposium. As mentioned before Lieut. General (Ret) Agus Widjoyo is  the member of the Association of the Youth of the Nation who initiated the conduct of the Symposium.  The Association of the Youth of the Nation is the consultative forum among the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution Heroes and the Sons and Daughters of the leaders of the Communist  Party of Indonesia. Lieut. General (Ret) Agus Widjoyo is the son of  one of the Revolution Hero, Maj. Gen Soetoyo who was killed by the Communist Armed Unit  in the early morning of Sept 30, 1965.

The Symposium was conducted on April 18-19, 2016 at Aryaduta Hotel Jakarta attended and participated by a  numbers of former members of the Communist Party  of Indonesia, the Human Right Activists,   Lieut. Gen (Ret) Luhut B Pandjaitan who officially opened the Symposium and some others Government Officials, Lieut. Gen (Ret) Agus Widjoyo Chief of the Steering Committee and also invited as  a speaker was Lieut. General (Ret) Sintong Pandjaitan, the former Commander of The Special Forces Command. He was still a young officer when the failed Communist Coup happened in 1965. He came to the Symposium was in his own capacity did not represent any organization.