Anatomy of the Jakarta Coup: October 1, 1965

The Collusion with China which Destroyed the Army Command, President Sukarno, and the Communist Party of Indonesia.

By Victor M. Fic
Foreword by John O. Sutter

This volume describes the most serious threat to the pluralistic nature of the Indonesian society and its secular government posed by an attempt of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) to seize power on October 1, 1965 with the complicity of President Sukarno. While the army under General Suharto thwarted the attempt, had the coup succeeded, an intensive class warfare would undoubtedly have destroyed the political parties, religious organizations, and entire social classes committed to the preservation of the multifaceted pluralism in the country.
Professor Fic’s well-documented opus, published 40 years after the event, is especially merited, for it overcomes a revisionist version based on limited information that had been broadly accepted until now.

$30 (including shipping and handling; price subject to change), 397 pages, soft cover. Published by Yayasan Obor Indonesia, Jakarta, 2005.
May be ordered directly from Obor at Jalan Plaju No. 10, Jakarta, 10230 Indonesia.

(Also available in Indonesian translation.)