After the coup in 1965 which brought Suharto to power and in which it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Communists, leftists and alleged sympathisers of the old order were killed, there was understandably something of a hiatus in political work in art in Indonesia. A number of artists were jailed for their alleged Communist involvement and membership of Lekra (an organisation of artists linked to the Communists), including the brilliant painter Hendra Gunawan, who spent 13 years in prison (although he was allowed to continue to paint).22 Djoko Pekik, another important painter, who depicted the lives of ordinary people as a grim and often bleak existence, had his work censored.