Rewriting the past: Indonesia's new history books spook scholars


FILE PHOTO: Draft volume summaries and a chapter outline seen by AFP do not include any specific section on the 1998 violence. - AFP

JAKARTA: The Indonesian government's plans to issue new history books have sparked fears that mention of deadly riots in 1998 targeting mostly ethnic Chinese in the country will be scrubbed from the text.

The ten-volume account was ordered by the administration of President Prabowo Subianto, an ex-general accused of abducting activists in the unrest that preceded dictator Suharto's fall, claims he denies.

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