He has also worked to expose injustices such as the rape
and murder of the woman trade unionist Marsinah. For the Third
Asia–Pacific Triennial in Brisbane in 1999, he produced a work
about the violent riots in which Chinese were targeted. The
original concept for the work, unable to be realised at the time,
also included references to heads of ancient Hindu statues sold to
tourists and the archaeological treasures thus destroyed and, Adi
Wickasono suggests, to deaths in more recent history, such as the
coup in 1965, when the rivers were said to be filled with headless
corpses, and more recent mysterious and potentially politically
motivated deaths in 1999 near the artist’s village.36 His most
recent work after the fall of Suharto has also been educational and
community based. Moelyono’s art is concerned particularly with
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