Washington, D.C., October 17, 2017 - The U.S. government had detailed knowledge that the
Indonesian Army was conducting a campaign of mass murder against the country’s
Communist Party (PKI) starting in 1965, according to newly declassified
documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George
Washington University. The new materials further show that diplomats in
the Jakarta Embassy kept a record of which PKI leaders were being executed, and
that U.S. officials actively supported Indonesian Army efforts to destroy the
country’s left-leaning labor movement.