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On September 30, 1965, six of Indonesia's highest ranking generals were killed in an effort by President Sukarno to crush an alleged coup. The events of that were part of a rapidly growing power struggle pro and anti-communist factions. The elimination of the generals, however, did little to increase and preserve Sukarno's power, though, and he was stripped of the presidency in 1967. Hunt's work is a unique and original examination of the events that culminated on that night in September, 1965. It is the first detailed account of the Indonesian Coup that reveals the previously unknown workings of the PKI's ultra-secret Special Bureau, a clandestine organization within the Communist Party that may be the prototype of other similar entities that flourished around the world in the mid-50's and 60s. No such expose of secret communist organizations committed to covert killings of the top military or political leaders of the country has ever been published. She establishes beyond any doubt that the PKI, under Chairman Aidit's direction, using the capabilities of a secret organization within the PKI that only Aidit and a handful of trusted high-level members of the Communist Party even knew about, and, most importantly, acting with President Sukarno's full knowledge and approval, planned and then-dramatically-failed to execute a bold plan to kill the top leadership of the Army and proclaim a new socialist state under President Sukarno's leadership with PKI Chairman Aidit as his proclaimed successor. At the time of the coup, government analysts as well as non-government scholars were of two minds. Some, like the group at Cornell University, were convinced that the PKI (Indonesian Communist Party) had not been involved, that the coup was the action mid-level army officers against the top leadership. That was the official line at the time. Others were convinced that the PKI alone had planned and executed the coup in its long-held desire to remove the pro-U.S. army leadership. No one at the time saw the hand of Indonesia's world-famous President Sukarno in the affair.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780275974381 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date: | 05/30/2007 |
| Series: | PSI Reports |
| Pages: | 216 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d) |
About the Author
Helen-Louise Hunter was a political analyst at the CIA for twenty-three years and served as the Assistant National Intelligence Officer for the Far East from 1979-81. She went on to earn her J.D. from Georgetown and was a clerk to two federal judges in the U.S. District Court for Maryland before joining the law firm of Jones Day in Washington, D.C. in 1989. She is the author of Kim Il-song's North Korea (1999) and co-author of North Korea, A Country Study (2006).
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Introduction 1
The Coup 2
The Kidnapping of the Generals 2
Suharto Takes Command of the Army 6
The Show of Force in Djakarta 7
The Central Command in Djakarta 8
Sukarno Hears the News 11
The Murder of the Generals 13
The Coup Is Proclaimed 14
The Central Command Moves to Halim 15
The New Order Is Announced 17
President Sukarno at Halim 20
Dani Seals His Fate 27
Djakarta: Outward Calm of the City 28
Suharto: The Making of a Hero 29
The Collapse of the Coup 35
Reprise of the Coup in Central Java 39
The Coup de Grace for the PKI 43
The Postlude 46
The Central Command in Hiding 46
Aidit's Last Days 50
Dani Under Sukarno's Protection 54
Sukarno in a Losing Cause 56
The Planning of the Coup 63
The Army Interrogation Reports 64
The Role of the PKI Special Bureau 68
PKI Recruitment of the Military Officers 72
The PKI's Military Plan for the Coup 74
The First Meeting: The Military Leaders Meet 75
The Second Meeting: Sjam Takes Charge 78
The Third Meeting: The Question of Troops and the Role of Sukarno 80
The Fourth Meeting: The Question of the Generals and the Choice of a Leader 81
The Fifth Meeting: The Question of Arms and an Important Newcomer to the Group 86
The Sixth Meeting: The Training of the Volunteers and a Promise from the Cavalry 90
The Seventh Meeting: The Decision on D Day 94
The Eighth Meeting: The Order to Go 99
The Last-Minute PKI Preparations 101
The Last-Minute Military Preparations 103
The Prelude 109
The PKI's Domestic Policy 109
The PKI's Armed Capability 112
The PKI's Covert Apparatus 114
The PKI's Policy Toward Sukarno 118
Sukarno on the Offensive: September 1964-March 1965 120
The Gilchrist Letter 124
The Generals' Council 127
The PKI's 45th Anniversary 131
Aidit's Last Trip Abroad 132
In Moscow 133
In Peking 135
Sukarno's Illness 137
An Urgent Summons to Aidit 139
The PKI in a State of Panic 140
Decision in the Politburo 141
Sukarno Recovered...and with Aidit 146
Sukarno Against the Generals' Council 147
The Month of September: A Flurry of Speeches 150
Sukarno on the Eve of the Coup 155
In Retrospect 164
The PKI 164
The Military Leaders: Untung, Sujono, Latief, and Supardjo 167
Dani 168
Subandrio 171
Sukarno 174
The Chinese 179
The Coup in Perspective 181
Chronology of Events 185
Index 197
What People are Saying About This
B. Hugh Tovar
"Helen-Louise Hunter, an analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence during the Indonesian crisis of 1965-66, drew upon masses of classified intelligence available in CIA and other government agencies to produce the first reliable analysis of a episode that not only defied comprehension at the time it occurred, but has since retained an aura of mystery and, indeed, controversy among observers in and outside of government. Ms. Hunter deserves admiration for an impressive accomplishment. Finally declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency, the story is now open to the public. It is readable, intelligible and enormously interesting. As one who witnessed the Indonesian upheaval at first hand, I recommend her book as the best thing written on the subject to date."
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