Trisakti Museum or May 12 Tragedy Museum is a human rights

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

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. The museum documents the active role of Indonesian students at

Trisakti University Universitas Trisakti (Usakti, Trisakti) is Indonesia's largest private university located in Jakarta, Indonesia. Universitas Trisakti, is the only private university in Indonesia which was established by the Government of the Republic of Indones ...

in fighting for

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and

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. The museum briefly tells about four students who were shot on May 12, 1998. In the museum there are short articles, a collection of news from newspapers, ornaments, demonstration photographs, photographs of the deceased, and their relics.

History

Trisakti Museum was established with the background of the Indonesian university student movement in 1998, when the students across Indonesia rallied to demand reform. The students at

, as a part of the students in Indonesia as a whole, participated in a peaceful

protest movement A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public act of objection, disapproval or dissent against political advantage. Protests can be thought of as acts of cooperation in which numerous people cooperate ...

. The movement reach its peak when four students at Trisakti University were killed on May 12, 1998. This incident triggered the

fall of Suharto On 21 May 1998, Suharto resigned as president of Indonesia following protests and riots across the country against his regime. His vice president, B. J. Habibie, took over the presidency. Suharto's grip on power weakened following severe ...

. To commemorate the tragedy, the museum was placed in the lobby of the Dr Syarif Thajeb building, on the campus of Trisakti University,

Grogol Grogol is an urban administrative village in the Grogol Petamburan Districts of Indonesia, subdistrict of West Jakarta, Indonesia. The triangle-shaped administrative village is bounded by the Jakarta Flood Canal, West Flood Canal to the east, Jak ...

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