Book launch: “The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia” by Soe Tjen Marching
In the late 1960s, between one and two million people were killed by Indonesian president Suharto’s army in the name of suppressing communism—and more than fifty years later, the issue of stigmatization is still relevant for many victims of the violence and their families. The End of Silence presents the stories of these individuals, revealing how many survivors from the period have been so strongly affected by the strategy used by Suharto and his Western allies that these survivors, still afraid to speak out, essentially serve to maintain the very ideology that led to their persecution.

Soe Tjen Marching is a writer, academic, activist, and a composer. In 1998, she won national competition for Indonesian Contemporary Composers held by the German Embassy. In 2010, her work has been selected as one of the two best compositions on the International Competition for avant-garde composers held in Singapore. She has published academic books and novels, in English and in Indonesian. She also publishes a bilingual magazine, Bhinneka. She is now senior lector in Indonesian at SOAS, University of London. One edition of the Bhinneka magazine can be viewed here: archive.org/details/BhinnekaMarch2016English

There will be a limited copies of the book available to buy at the event with a 40% discount from the original price of £64 – please drop a message to wiktor.ostasz@new.ox.ac.uk to reserve one.
Date: 6 June 2017, 17:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2017)
Venue: The Garden Room, Stanford House, 65 High Street
Speaker: Soe Tjen Marching
Organisers: Nicholas Matheou (University of Oxford), Ilya Afanasyev (University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence