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  1. Dipa Nusantara Aidit (born Ahmad Aidit; 30 July 1923 – 22 November 1965) [3] was an Indonesian communist politician, who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) from 1951 until his summary execution during the mass killings of 1965–66.

  2. Dipa Nusantara Aidit (30 Juli 1923 – 22 November 1965) [3] adalah seorang politikus komunis Indonesia, yang menjabat sebagai Sekretaris Jenderal Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) dari tahun 1951 hingga eksekusi kilatnya pada saat pembantaian di Indonesia 1965-1966. Lahir dengan nama Achmad Aidit di Pulau Belitung, ia akrab dipanggil "Amat".

  3. How did it secure major electoral successes? The answers to both queries have much to do with the PKI's adaptation of Maoism.

    • Events of October 1
    • Who Was Behind The 30th September Movement?
    • Enter Defiant Suharto
    • Army Propaganda Against The PKI
    • Persistent Conspiracy Theories
    • Did Western Intelligence Dupe Aidit?
    • Did Suharto Know?
    • Tragic End

    On October 1, 1965, Indonesians awoke to hear a radio announcement telling them that a “30th September Movement” had taken action to prevent a military coup and to secure the Indonesian president Sukarno’s position. The movement’s leader, Lieutenant Colonel Untung, was commander of the presidential guard. He assured listeners that the president was...

    The events of October 1 became a pivotal moment in Indonesia’s history. For decades, Indonesia observers treated the events of that day as a whodunnit. They assembled a list of suspects, assessed the meagre evidence against each of them, sought to divine their potential motives and came to a conclusion. Not only Aidit and Untung featured in the lin...

    The disappearance of the generals did not throw the anti-communist forces in the army off balance. Instead, the relatively unknown General Suharto, commander of the army’s strategic reserve, took swift action. Claiming military necessity, Suharto assumed army command. Within 24 hours, he cajoled and intimidated the movement’s troops in central Jaka...

    The murder of six generals was a shock to Indonesians. There was little evidence of PKI involvement – the documents establishing Aidit’s role in the planning were discovered only decades later – but in the tense political environment people found the idea of a communist pre-emptive strike against its opponents plausible. Suharto and his group quick...

    Despite documents revealing Aidit’s role, some observers still support alternative theories for two reasons. First, admitting Aidit’s role is sometimes seen as sailing perilously close to the Suharto regime’s justification of the massacres. However, there is a vast difference between acknowledging Aidit’s secret plans and subscribing to Suharto’s f...

    First, did Aidit have real evidence of a planned generals’ coup later that month or was he deliberately deceived? Western intelligence agencies deeply feared the PKI would come to power as Sukarno declined. They imagined a premature PKI grab for power would provide the pretext to defeat the party. Did they find a channel to feed misleading informat...

    Second, did Suharto know more about the 30th September Movement plans than he ever admitted? That Suharto was not among the generals who were kidnapped is not significant. He was generally considered non-political and would hardly have been involved in planning a coup. We also need not take seriously the argument that Suharto’s highly effective sei...

    The subsequent ease with which the communist party was destroyed showed how fragile it was in comparison with the army. A tattered economy along with old antagonisms between communism and Islamic groups, too, would have presented a PKI government with extraordinary difficulties. A communist Indonesia was unlikely. That makes it all the more tragic ...

  4. Jul 18, 2022 · Although scholars recognize that Maoism was influential on PKI theory and praxis, they have hitherto underevaluated the extent to which PKI leaders, notably Dipa Nusantara Aidit and Muhammad...

  5. Indonesia’s position, lying as it does between India and China, made it, right from the beginning of the Christian era, a centre of world trade. It is stated that in 414 A.D., a Chinese merchant left west Java for Canton together with 200 other persons, the majority of whom were Hindu merchants.

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  7. D. N. Aidit, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Indonesia, in tracing the history of his Party gives us a cogent and analytical account of the Indonesian national movement.