'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)