Penggulingan president sukarno biography

  • President Soeharto rose to power in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt against Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, on September 30, 1965.
  • This paper explores the role of Muslim organisations in the slow overthrow of President Sukarno between 30 September 1965 and 12 March 1967.
  • Aidit) was the chairman of the PKI Central Committee (see also notes 6 and 14).

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    No Reconciliation without Truth An Interview with Tan Swie Ling on the 1965 Mass Killings in Indonesia

    by
    Intan Suwandi

    Introduction: The September 30th Movement, 1965

    In the early morning of October 1, 1965, self-proclaimed left-wing troops raided the houses of seven top army generals in Jakarta. In the process, six of the generals were killed—three were shot during the kidnapping attempt, while the others were taken to Lubang Buaya, an air force base located in the south of Jakarta, and then killed. The seventh general, Nasution, managed to escape. The perpetrators announced on national radio that they were troops loyal to President Sukarno, and they aimed to protect the president from the danger posed by the right-wing “Council of Generals”—who, they said, were planning to launch a military coup d’état. These troops called themselves the September 30th Movement (abbreviated in Indonesian as the G30S), and named Lieutenant Colonel Untung, a commander of the presidential guar

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    Abdurrahman Wahid

    President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001

    In this Indonesian name, there is no family name. The name Wahid is a patronymic.

    Abdurrahman Wahid (AHB-doo-RAHKH-mahn wah-HEED; néad-Dakhil,[2][3] 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), more colloquially known as Gus Dur (listenⓘ), was an Indonesian politician and Islamicreligious leader who served as the fourth president of Indonesia, from his election in 1999 until he was removed from office in 2001. A long time leader within the Nahdlatul lärda i islam organization, he was the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB). He was the son of Minister of Religious AffairsWahid Hasyim, and the grandson of Nahdatul Ulama founder Hasyim Asy'ari. Due to a visual impairment caused by glaucoma, he was blind in the left eye and partially blind in his right eye. He was the first (and to date only) president of Indonesia to have had physical disabilities. The name Abdurrahman Wahid means "Servant of M

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    Riva Dessthania Suastha, Jakarta – The Indonesian government will check the validity and accuracy of scores of recently declassified US documents on the September 30 Movement affair in 1965 and the army’s plan to overthrow then President Sukarno.

    “What we need to do before drawing any conclusions is to check the accuracy and validity of these reports”, said Indonesian Foreign Affairs spokesperson Arrmanatha Nasir at a press conference in Jakarta on onsdag på engelska October 18.

    Arrmanatha said that the documents need to be verified because they include reports from the ambassador and the US Consulate General in Jakarta at the time.

    The documents he said contain explanations by US diplomatic representatives about the situation in Indonesia based on perceptions, upplysning and the access that they had throughout 1964-1968.

    According to Arrmanatha, the validity of all of the reports has to be verified against actual events and facts.

    Arrmanatha made the statement following the release of

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