Misleading2025-11
What is circulating
“Defending the national hero title for Suharto on 5 November 2025, Culture Minister Fadli Zon said there was never any proof that Suharto was involved in the 1965 to 1966 mass killings.”
Claimed by Fadli Zon, Culture Minister · official statement
The facts
No court has tried the case, but historical research documents the army's role under Suharto's command. Historian Jess Melvin's study of nearly 3,000 pages of military archives from Aceh shows a chain of command from Suharto through the Sumatra commander down to district level in operations to annihilate people accused of being communists.