This situation lasted until Soeharto's dictatorship fell in 1998. Even then, it wasn't safe for former political prisoners to speak out. It has only been since 2003, under President "Gus Dur's" leadership, that the travesties of the Soeharto era started to be discussed more openly. The people who live in this old folks home participate in oral history projects and have starred in films that are documenting what happened in 1965 in Indonesia.prisoners were forbidden to tell their stories. NEXT PAGE