{"id":37365,"date":"2021-09-27T00:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/26\/letter-carmel-budiardjo-obituary"},"modified":"2021-09-27T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:17:49","slug":"letter-carmel-budiardjo-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37365","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Carmel Budiardjo obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Hickman\u2019s obituary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/aug\/23\/carmel-budiardjo-obituary\" title=\"\">Carmel Budiardjo<\/a>, the campaigner for human rights and justice in Indonesia, refers to the political effects of the cold war in south-east Asia. One consequence was that the west turned a blind eye to the 1965 massacre in Indonesia and to the anti-left purge under General Suharto.<\/p>\n<p>Carmel\u2019s organisation Tapol was a lonely voice in exposing the plight of tens of thousands of political prisoners and their families. She was wonderfully forthright and focused on the cause. In 1990 when I visited Indonesia for the Guardian to cover the \u2013 largely ignored \u2013 25th anniversary of the massacre, her help with contacts included the great novelist and ex-prisoner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2006\/may\/03\/guardianobituaries.indonesia\" title=\"\">Pramoedya Ananta Toer<\/a>, and proved to be invaluable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/26\/letter-carmel-budiardjo-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Hickman\u2019s obituary of Carmel Budiardjo, the campaigner for human rights and justice in Indonesia, refers to the political effects of the cold war in south-east Asia. One consequence was that the west turned a blind eye to the 1965 massacre in In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37366,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37365\/revisions\/37366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}