Fransiskus/Usman Buang Duran; Catholic, Muslim, communist

Oile September day in 2000, I was walking past a field hut in Witihama, Adonara, Indonesia,l when I was called over to talk to some inen who were dr~nking palm wine.Among them was a man in his seventies know11 as Ama Lawe.They asked me to join them, and while we were talking, the conversation came around to a man named Buang Duran.In this context, Ama Lawe said that he could tell that I was a communist.'All Westerners are comununists and intent on defeating capitalism'.This totally unexpected comment startled me, because in the Indonesia I had known from 1969, no one had ever before spoken to me favourably about communism, a topic which had been prohibited from public discussion since the violent aftermath of the events of 30 September 1965, when six generals were murdered in Jakarta by military rebels believed to be associated with the Partai Koinunis Indonesia (PKI, Communist Party of Indonesia).This incident eventually led to the overtl~row of Soekarno as President of the Republic of Indonesia and the establishment of the military dictatorship under Soeharto, and the massacre of hundreds of thousands of alleged communists in 1965 , 1966 and 1967 Until 1998, following the fall of the Soeharto regime, the government kept its eye on the population through security agencies and spies, and anyone making political statements unwelcome to the Soeharto government was liable to arrest.Since 1998, I had become accustoined to the much more open discussion of politics by Indonesians following the abolition of these agencies.However, this comment was still unexpected.Ama Lawe then told me that he used to be a member of the Persatuan Kaum Tani Indonesia (PKTI, ' In the Regency of East Floses, Provlnce of Ntrsa Tenggara TIS-I~LII, ea5tern Indones~a

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