Indonesian President Evokes Communism's Ghost

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has once again evoked the dangerous and utterly fictitious threat of communism for apparent political purposes. On Friday, he publicly warned the nation of an existential threat posed by what he described as "communism and the legacy of the PKI (Communist Party of Indonesia)." During 1965-66, Indonesia's security forces, paramilitaries, and Muslim militias killed between 500,000 to one million suspected "communists." Widodo's speech ignored the decades o...