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A teenager in the Indonesian coup
A rare bystander's view of the 1965 coup where neighbours, including soon to be President Suharto, were key players. Tari Lang's family were radical intellectuals, working for the Sukarno Government. Sukarno was ousted, and their lives would never be the same. Guest: Tari Lang, author of 'My neighbour, the dictator' (Published by Monsoon, distributed by Simon & Schuster)Producer: Ann Arnold
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Even today, many mysteries surround the uprising in Indonesia that began in October 1965. How many died in the months of slaughter that followed is unknown, almost certainly more than a million, as the army revenged itself on the Communist Party and the progressive left.
Sukarno, leader of the country since independence, was forced to step aside, and General Soharto began his 32-year reign. A unique witness to this bloody upheaval, Tari Lang, has written a memoir of these times called My Neighbour Dictator. Tari grew up in Jakarta, the daughter of a British Jewish
mother and a Javanese Muslim father. Radical intellectuals who worked for the Sukarno government, they survived the slaughter, though arrested more than once, leaving Tari aged about 14 her brother to survive as best they could. Tari now lives in Britain where she sits on the boards of a number of cultural institutions,
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