May 1998 riots
TFW Everything You Loved From Childhood Reveals Itself as New Order Propaganda
A reflection on a time when pop culture was really propaganda culture.
Chinese-Indonesian Refugees Found a New Home, and New Problems, in the US
In Philadelphia, home to the second largest Indonesian American population in the US, those who escaped the riots in May 1998 are living through a period of rising anti-immigration rhetoric.
Reflections of May '98 Looters, Victims of the New Order's 'Organized Riots'
A week before the fall of Gen. Suharto, riots broke out in Jakarta targeting the country's ethnic Chinese communities and their businesses. Now experts say rioters and looters were tricked into escalating the unrest by the government.
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