The moment when the world woke up to the travesty of Indonesia's occupation of East Timor was November 12, 1991 - the day Indonesian soldiers opened fire on a peaceful crowd of mourners at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili.
Back in Jakarta, Indonesians who wanted to find out what was conducted in their name could read only a weekly magazine, Jakarta Jakarta, which offered news coverage alongside a juicy mix of models and entertainment.
Its editor, Seno Gumira Ajidarma, took the calculated risk of publishing eyewitness reports of Indonesian soldiers finishing off gunshot victims with rifle-butt blows to their heads. His reports spoke of victims forced to drink the blood of fallen friends, of young men being stripped naked and beaten, with pens rammed into their genitals, forced to watch friends stabbed to death by soldiers.
For this temerity, he was sacked by his own publishers, the Kompas media group, which was fearful of military repercussions in the highly controlled Suharto era.
Mr Ajidarma's decision to publish was pioneering for those times in Indonesia.
Recalling his decision to publish the truth about Santa Cruz, Mr Ajidarma first jokes that he needed something to fill a hole in his magazine.