'Unmarked Graves': The injustice that won't die Duncan Graham The Jakarta Post Malang Jakarta, posted: Mon, October 29, 2018 | 08:41 am Unmarked Graves by Vannessa Hearman(Shutterstock/NUS Press) President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo was just a 4-year-old when the failed Sept. 30 coup allegedly conducted by the now banned Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in 1965 led to the fall of late president Sukarno and the rise of Soeharto as Indonesia’s de facto dictator for more than 30 years. The little Jokowi was probably too busy playing kelereng (marbles) around his family’s shack on the Surakarta river banks in Central Java to understand the political games that rocked the republic hundreds of kilometers away in Jakarta. Even if some relatives had sniffed the reforms promised by the 3-million strong PKI, infecting the real or imagined interests of any fore-parents on their offspring is an obscenity. That the slur gets some traction among Jokowi’s more gul