Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 East Timor : Questions of Intelligence
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'On 2 December 2009, the film censorship authorities in Jakarta, backed by the Indonesian government, handed the Australian director Robert Connolly and his producers a splendid gift: They banned their film Balibo, which had been due for screening at the Jakarta Film Festival. The official statement was that this film, a part-fictional version of events that took place in East Timor thirty-four years ago, was 'negative propaganda', and that the Balibo case was 'closed'.' (Author's introduction, 103)

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Subjects:
  • Balibo,
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    Timor-Leste,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Jakarta, Java,
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    Indonesia,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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