Feb 5: Oscar nomination ends Indonesia’s amnesia

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/oscar-nomination-ends-indonesias-amnesia/article5653552.ece Oscar nomination ends Indonesia’s amnesia Pallavi Aiyar The Academy Awards are most closely associated with expensive, red carpet dresses and banal acceptance speeches. There is rarely space for the edgy, politically meaningful, or foreign. This year, however, one Oscar nominee for best documentary feature, “The Act of Killing,” resurrects one of the great “forgotten” […]