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This mini-encyclopedia explains some of the key terms pertaining to the events of 1965-66 John Roosa Aidit speaking at PKI election rally, 1955 Aidit, DN (1923-65) Head of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). It is difficult now to understand his strategising in the months before the 30 September Movement, the hours during which the movement occurred, and the weeks he lived in hiding after the movement ended. The eyewitness account written in 1986 by the former note taker of the Politburo, Iskandar Subekti, contends that Aidit believed by September 1965 that a cabal of right-wing army generals were planning to overthrow President Sukarno and attack the PKI. Aidit had to decide whether to launch a pre-emptive action or allow the coup to proceed and then respond. Based on briefings from Sjam, the party’s liaison with military officers supportive of the PKI, he thought that a pre-emptive action stood a good chance of success. He was convinced that mid-ranking ‘progressive’ officers could mobilise enough troops to act against their superiors and foil the plot. With secrecy of paramount concern, he selected a handful of his most trusted colleagues in the Politburo for discussions during the month of September about how the party would assist those ‘progressive’ officers. The agreement was that the PKI would determine the political side of the action while the officers handled the military side. Sjam shuttled between the party leaders and the officers. The movement was not designed to put the PKI directly into power; the immediate goal was a coalition government (thus the disparate figures named to the Revolution Council). By purging the right-wing generals, the movement would create an environment in which the PKI could gradually gain greater power. On the day of the action (October 1), Aidit was at the Halim Airbase. Through a courier, he was in frequent contact with Sjam and the military officers holed up in a different house. Once the action collapsed on the night of October 1, he boarded a plane to Central Java where the party had its strongest bases of support. He remained underground there until his capture and summary execution by army personnel in late November. His post-October 1 strategising remains unclear. He appears to have been thoroughly confused as what to do once the movement failed. Without his leadership, the party fell into disarray. Baca selanjutnya Dictionary of a disaster Statement from the International Conference “Kemerdekaan dan Perubahan Jati Diri: Postcolonial Indonesian Identity” Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta 14-15 Januari 2010 As Indonesian and International historians, we oppose the banning of book in Indonesia recently. For example, John Roosa’s book Dalih Pembunuhan Massal. This book is an objective work of historical scholarship. Its original English version has already received high praise throughout the world and is including in teaching curricula in Indonesia and other Asian countries, Australia, North America and Europe. Yogyakarta, 15 January 2010 1 J Thomas Lindblad (PhD, Leiden University) If you have a share opinion with that statement, please send email (write your complete name, position and institution) to insi.indonesia@yahoo.com or clik this link insi-indonesia.org and joint to the forum (Versi ringkas ‘Book Banning in Indonesia : A Blast from the Past’ dimuat di Jakarta Post, 13 Januari 2010) John Roosa Pertamakali saya mendengar berita bahwa terjemahan buku saya, Dalih Pembunuhan Massal: Gerakan 30 September dan Kudeta Suharto (Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’État in Indonesia), dilarang, saya dikuasai rasa déjà vu. Saya seakan-akan masih hidup di masa Suharto ketika semua barang cetakan disensor, ketika mahasiswa dituntut ke pengadilan karena membaca buku-buku Pramoedya Ananta Toer, ketika begitu banyak kawan-kawan saya yang berjuang melawan sang diktator bekerja secara anonim dan acap kali bergerak di bawah tanah … Tubuh saya meregang dan adrenalin pun mengalir deras. Baca selanjutnya Pelarangan Buku di Indonesia: Hempasan dari Masa Lalu Published on The Jakarta Post (http://www.thejakartapost.com) When I heard the news that the Indonesian translation of my book, Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Soeharto’s Coup d’État in Indonesia, was banned, I was perplexed. Baca selanjutnya Book banning in Indonesia: A blast from the past |
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