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UWRF Cancelled Sessions

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August 14, 2018 — by IDWRITERS

Last updated on August 14, 2018 at 4:17 pm


In 2015, three panel sessions dedicated to discussing the 1965 Communist repression and an art exhibition and book launch The Act of Living will no longer be taking place across the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival period. In addition the film screening of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence has also been cancelled, as well as two book launches, The Crocodile Hole and Bali 1964-1999. 

The announcement by organisers was unprecedented in the 12-year history of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival and signalled heightened sensitivities in Indonesia around the 50th anniversary of the mass killings, in which about 500,000 people died. Another backward step for freedom in Indonesia

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