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This episode discusses disappearance, murder, violent injuries, alleged torture and coercive detention, and repression connected to a labor dispute. It avoids graphic detail.

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In 1993, Marsinah worked at the Catur Putra Surya watch factory in East Java. After workers struck over wages and working conditions, a settlement reportedly promised that there would be no retaliation. The following day, workers were summoned to a military office and pressured to resign. Marsinah tried to find out what had happened to them. She then disappeared.

Her body was found days later in the Nganjuk area. Sources differ on whether that happened on May 8 or May 9. The violent nature of her death is established, but the accessible record does not support one uncontested account of the exact sequence, timing, o ...