They were wrong. Not long after starting, he smiled and told reporters he had “no thoughts about apologizing.”9 In 2017, the year my roommate was terrorized in Jakarta for attending a conference on 1965, Jokowi, who had been accused of being a communist himself, took a stronger position. “If the PKI comes back, just beat them up,” he said.10 In 2019, Jokowi was re-elected for another five-year term.
