Center for Asian American Media

Clandestinely filmed after the July 1996 riots in Indonesia, ISLANDS ON FIRE offers a deep look at the underlying internal and external forces that allowed decades of an aggressive dictatorship that was supported by extensive foreign investment. Includes interviews with Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia’s first president, internationally known writer Pramoedya Anata Toer and jailed labor leader Muchtar Pakpahan.

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San Francisco Imternational Asian American Film Festival

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