By : Soedibyo, Political and Security Observer

In the year of 1965 Indonesia was seriously under the Communist threat which was believed supported by the foreign communist power preparing  to launch the military action  to take over the national leadership from President Soekarno. 

Utilizing a group of TNI officers and soldiers who had been influenced by the Communist ideology, on September 30, 1965 Communist Party of Indonesia tried to take over  the  political power of the Indonesian Government, started with the killing of Six Generals  of the Army Leadership in Jakarta, one Captain the ADC of General AH Nasution who was safe from the kidnapping and also brutally killed Colonel Katamso,  The Commander of the Military Regional Area Command of Yogyakarta. The Army was considered as the main enemy of the CPI.

Lieut. Col Untung  (apparently was Communist cadre) as the Commander of the  Movement of September 30 declared on the establishment of the  Revolutionary Council under the command of his leadership as the Political Power of  Indonesia.

 Major General Soeharto, the Commander of the Army Strategic Command being the professional military strategist urgently  based on various valid information ordered the Special Force unit to control all the strategic position in Jakarta especially the Centre of the Communication System and the Central  Indonesian Radio Station  

The Communist Party of Indonesia was felt seriously dangerous   and it was resulting   the national consensus among the Non and Anti Communist group  that the Communist Party of Indonesia  (CPI) should be dismissed and its power should be crushed.

The year of 1965 was definitely the year of War against the Communist Power.  The Non and Anti Communist Power firmly  decided  to prevent the second Vietnam War should not to take place in Indonesia. General Soeharto based on the special authority to create the peaceful  situation of the country from President Soekarno decided to dismiss the CPI on March 1966.

Constitutionally  in the middle of 1966 the Peoples Consultative Assembly decided that  Marxism, Leninism, Communism, Maoism are teaching and ideology  that are forbidden to be spread off in Indonesia and the Communist Party of Indonesia (CPI) and all its mass followers are dismissed and forbidden to exist in Indonesia.

This Kind of Books is Important to be Reprinted and Distributed Among Young Generation

One of the important Communist Party of Indonesia’s  doctrine that we must put  continues  attention is the compulsory of every Communist Party cadre to try to survive whatever  the situation they are facing and try to continue the communist struggle to communise the country.

It has been detected presently that the remnant members of the Communist Party of Indonesia are trying to organize themselves in various social  organizations to maintain their spirit and the possibility to survive again in the political activities. They never stop to try  for the survival and presently   the National Commission for Human Right likely has given chance to them for the possible survive.

The success of the Symposium on the National Tragedy in 1965  organized  by the National Commission for Human Right and one Politician of the member of the Presidential Adviser domestically has opened the chance for the remnant members of CPI to be active socially. This symposium had been successfully  to raise   the issue of the existing  massacre and mass graves of the members of the CPI  who were killed in the year of 1965, in their effort to  help for the survival of the CPI.

Surprisingly internationally the chance for the remnant members of the CPI to survive has been opened and helped by the  International  Personal Tribunal in Den Haag to wake up  those still alive remnants of CPI cadres to start their struggle for the survival. 

It is important to note that to prove that the CPI is  the evil traitor, President Soeharto has ordered the State Secretary Moerdiono   to compose the background situation of  The Movement of September 30 in 1965 in official book  published  by the Government of the New Order.

It is not easy mission but the special Team formed  and successfully finished its mission and officially The State Secretary Office on October 1, 1994  published the book in two edition, in Indonesian and in English. The title of the book is   “The Movement of the September 30, the CPI rebellion and the way to crush them”,   with the Introduction by Minister Moerdiono as the State Secretary. The book has been also considered as the White Book on the Background  of Crushing  and Demolishing  the Communism and CPI in Indonesia ideologically and physically.

The book could definitely be found in the Office  of the State Secretary  or  in the Library of maybe  BIN or in TNI Historical  Centre or owned  by the a number of people personally .

This kind of books is important to be reprinted and distributed among young generation within and outside the Government Office and TNI. The coming young generation has to know that the Communist are not human, democratic and openness   group. They are extremist, radical  and  brutal. The Communist is the devil. Based on the facts as printed in this book   the decision of the IPT in Den Haag, the Netherlands  can easily be  rejected and neglected.