May 1998 and Today

May 1998 riot - AFP

May 1998 riot - AFP Source: AFP

Christianto Wibisono a prominent Chinese Indonesian business analyst, writer and activist, who will appear by Skype at the “20 Years of the May 1998 Violence” seminar to be co-hosted by Monash University and the Indonesian Community Forum in Australia (FMIA) on 19 May 2018, talks about the need to confront the traumas of the past.


Why is it important to all Indonesians for the nation to stop avoiding aspects of the past that it finds confronting?   Christianto Wibisono addresses this issue by reflecting on the events of May 1998.


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