{"id":47,"date":"2005-09-15T23:37:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T03:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/2005\/09\/15\/murderers-drive-indonesi"},"modified":"2005-09-15T23:37:37","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T03:37:37","slug":"murderers-drive-indonesia-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/2005\/09\/15\/murderers-drive-indonesia-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"MURDERER&#8217;S DRIVE: INDONESIA, 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a176'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT size=\"1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT size=\"5\">&nbsp;&#8220;pki&#8221;&nbsp;<FONT size=\"1\">early poster from a communist-affiliated university club<\/FONT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;T<\/FONT><FONT size=\"3\">oday is the 40th anniversary of one of the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.serve.com\/inside\/edit57\/poulg.htm\">most infamous episodes<\/A> in the history of United States Foreign Policy.&nbsp;&nbsp; On September 30, 1965, the Indonesian military, acting in <A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/3152622.stm\">criminal concert<\/A> with western embassies and intelligence services, set in motion a plan that would result in the outright murder of nearly 1 million of the nation&#8217;s most progressive citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp; Gathered around the Indonesian Communist Party (<A href=\"http:\/\/www.reference.com\/browse\/wiki\/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia\">PKI<\/A>) were nearly twenty million trade unionists, teachers, members of womens and peasant organizations and the very future of progressive Indonesia.&nbsp;&nbsp; Theirs was a powerful movment, but one whose leadership had badly misread the political situation there, seeking alliances with &#8220;progressive&#8221; nationalists while remaining largely unarmed.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was to cost them and their country dearly and precipitate the 33 year reign of <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suharto\">General Suharto<\/A>.&nbsp;&nbsp; Justice still eludes the <A href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/64acdcdc-3141-11da-ac1b-00000e2511c8.html\">survivors<\/A> of that terrible time; textbooks in Indonesia&nbsp;do not even mention it.&nbsp; And <A href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20051001.A03&amp;irec=2\">attempts<\/A> by survivors to bring the guilty to book have so far failed.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Over the coming weeks, I will include some first person accounts of the alleged Communist &#8220;coup&#8221; attempt and its calamitous aftermath.&nbsp;&nbsp; A number of survivors who are still in the country (a few even are domiciled in their original villages or nearby) have agreed (tentatively) to write brief <EM>resumes<\/EM> of their experiences.&nbsp;&nbsp; It has taken a good deal of persuasion on the part of myself and others to do so, but their story needs to be told.&nbsp;&nbsp; And to be heard.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8220;pki&#8221;&nbsp;early poster from a communist-affiliated university club&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Today is the 40th anniversary of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of United States Foreign Policy.&nbsp;&nbsp; On September 30, 1965, the Indonesian military, acting in criminal concert with western embassies and intelligence services, set in motion a plan that would result in the outright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marxisminternationstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marxisminternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}