In the current digital era, the internet had been widely used to distribute films. However, since the collapse of Soeharto’s New Order in 1998, forty alternative films dealing with the 1965/66 massacre have been released. Noer’s film Penumpasan Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI (The Eradication of the Treachery of the 30 September Movement/Indonesian Communist Party), more commonly known as Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI, has been widely propagated to produce an official memory of 1965/66 and its aftermath (Zurbuchen, 2002 Wieringa & Katjasungkana, 2019). Owing to its capacity to offer different means of interpreting and remembering the trauma of modern Indonesian history, cinema has become part of the battle for history in Post-Soeharto Indonesia (Espena, 2017: 59). Such media have been distributed through new media platforms, including YouTube (Espena, 2017 Ikhwan, Yulianto, Parahita, 2019). Media, be it fiction (Suryajaya, 2015 Heriyati, 2015 Wirawan, 2015) or factual-documentaries (Paramaditha, 2013), journalistic reports (Parahita, 2014), as well as videos conveying alternative perspectives of the 1965/66 massacres-have been used to enhance social memories of 1965/66.
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