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Suara.com – Gadjah Mada University historian Sri Margana assesses that audiences are now smart in responding to the pros and cons of the G30S / PKI film Eradication of Pengkhianatan, so there will be no problem playing it.
“People today are smart. There have been many new facts related to the G30S / PKI incident so that people can make judgments that are correct and that are not in the film,” Sri Margana said in a written statement on Wednesday. (9/30/2020).
In fact, Margana advised millennials to watch the movie G30S / PKI because they had never seen a movie that was often criticized for containing a host of lies and propaganda.
By watching the movie, he said, people can learn why it has its pros and cons.
“I suggest that those who have never seen it, see it as knowledge, add references to ways of thinking before acting,” he said.
Margana assessed that the government does not need to issue a ban for the public to see the film. On the other hand, the government is also expected not to make the film a mandatory public spectacle.
“Whether looking is forced or prohibited is not true,” he said.
A professor from the Department of History of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of the UGM said that the projection of this film stopped since the reform of 1998.
He said there were studies that highlighted the discontinuation of the Arifin C. Noer-directed film, one of which was because it was in fact deemed flawed. For example, on the history of torture beyond the limits of humanity to the generals in Lubang Buaya.
The results of the visas conducted by the doctors, he said, did not turn out to be torture, such as eye surgery, genital mutilation and more.
“This film has been shown to be flawed in fact, which has been admitted by the director himself. For example, about the torture of the generals before being set in Lubang Buaya, it is evident from the post-mortem files that they do not exist, just dramatization, “he said.
Given the element of violence in the film G30S / PKI, Margana emphasized the need for censorship because children had the opportunity to be seen.
“It would be better if an element of violence was not transmitted, besides the fact that there was no torture,” he said.
According to him, making the events of 1965 the collective memory of the nation is a good thing so that similar events do not happen again. But he asked the public not to pass on past grudges to the next generation.
Because the incident in 1965 was a conflict between political groups.
“The horrible thing is that everything is inherited that is not related to the problem. So you do not inherit revenge,” said Margana.
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