Joko Widowo Seeks to Clean up Indonesia’s Bloody Past

Government begins a mission to rectify Suharto’s human rights violations

Jokowi offers a conciliatory hand

President Joko Widodo has set out to rectify the biggest blot in Indonesian history, seeking to resolve cases of gross human rights violations in the mass killings that began in 1965 and ended with the New Order government of the strongman Suharto that ruled for 32 years.

That includes offenses against civilians that prev…