The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing Indonesian Jagal , meaning Butcher is a 2012 documentary film about the individuals who participated in the Indonesian killings of 196566 directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and codirected by Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian. It is a DanishBritishNorwegian coproduction, presented by Final Cut for Real in Denmark and produced by Signe Byrge Srensen. The executive producers were Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Joram ten Brink, and Andre Singer. It is a Docwest project of the University of Westminster. It won the 2013 European Film Award for Best Documentary, the Asia Pacific Screen Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.

The film focuses on the perpetrators of the Indonesian killings of 196566 in the present day ostensibly towards the communist community where almost a million people were killed. When Suharto overthrew Sukarno, the President of Indonesia, following the failed coup of theSeptember Movement in 1965, the gangsters Anwar Congo and Adi Zulkadry in Medan North Sumatra were promoted from selling black market movie theatre tickets to leading the most powerful death squad in North Sumatra. They also extorted money from ethnic Chinese as the price for keeping their lives. Anwar is said to have personally killed 1,000 people.Today, Anwar is revered as the right wing of a paramilitary organization Pemuda Pancasila that grew out of the death squads. The organization is so powerful that its leaders include government ministers who are openly involved in corruption, election rigging and clearing people from their land for developers. ........

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