In case you wish to investigate more closely the events surrounding the 1965 coup in Inodnesia (and the controversial role of the US government), here are some sites that you might wish to check.
Links
Sukarno
- Wiki entry
- Sukarno by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, appeared in Time (23 August1999)
- Timeline of the Sukarno years, 1950-65
- The New York Times archive of articles about Sukarno
- Ahmed Sukarno, entry on www.FamousMuslims.com
- President Sukarno of Indonesia: Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference (18 April 1955)
- See the materials on Sukarno and the 1965 coup on the WWW-VL History Indonesia site
- Sukarno visit to President Kennedy, from Stig Aga Aandstad , “Surrendering to Symbols: United States Policy Towards Indonesia 1961-1965" (Dissertation, University of Oslo,1999)
- Ralph McGehee, The Indonesian Massacres and the CIA
The 1965 Coup
- The National Security archive at George Washington University. Searching through this site you can find U.S. government documents dealing with Indonesia in the 1960s, focusing on the 1965 coup.
- Indonesian killings of 1965–1966 wiki entry; see also the Wiki entry for the 30 September Movement and the entry for Transition to the New Order
- See the excellent materials on the 1965 coup on the WWW-VL History Indonesia site
- Britain's role in Ousting Sukarno [Department of] State Historians Conclude U.S. Passed Names of Communists to Indonesian Army, which Killed at Least 105,000 in 1965-66
- The Fall of the Indonesian Communist Party in 1965
- What Happened in Indonesia? An Exchange (Francis J. Galbraith, reply by Martin Ennals), 9 February 1978 (from the New York Review of Books)
- Lessons of the 1965 Coup (from the world socialist website)
- Selected Documents Relating to the September 30th Movement and Its Epilogue
- Greg Poulgrain, Who Plotted the 1965 Coup?
- Gestapu Coup Attempt in Indonesia 1965
- John Braddock, US Backed "Efficacious Terror" in 1965 Indonesian Coup/Genocide (from the world socialist website)
- The Attempted Coup d'Etat in Indonesia in October of 1965
- A preliminary analysis of the October 1, 1965, coup in Indonesia [by] Benedict R. Anderson and Ruth T. McVey (with the assistance of Frederick P. Bunnell)
- David Ransom, Ford Country: Building an Elite for Indonesia
- Nivell Rayda Elderly Victims of Communist Purge Seek Justice After a Lifetime of Pain (5 November 2010)
- Suharto Coup
- Wiki entry
- The New York Times obituary (28 January 2008)
- The New York Times archive of articles about Suharto
- Mohammed Suharto, entry on www.FamousMuslims.com
- In Pictures: Indonesia's Suharto (BBC News)
- Edward S. Herman, Good and Bad Genocide: Double standards in coverage of Suharto and Pol Pot
- Sholto Byrnes, Suharto the "Hero?" (New Statesman)
- By John Colmey and David Liebhold, Suharto Inc, Time Magazine (24 May 1999)
- Suharto - Covering up Western Complicity
- Suharto: A Declassified Documentary Obit
- Obituary: Indonesia's Suharto (Financial Times)
- Obituary: Suharto (The Guardian) (27 January 2008)
- General Suharto: The Times obituary (28 January 2008)
- Hugo Restall, Suharto's Legacy, Wall Street Journal (28 January 2008)
- Shadow Play information on a 2002 PBS documentary on Indonesia under Suharto
- John Pilger, Suharto to Iraq: Nothing has changed, published on the fortieth anniversary of the 1965 coup. (15 Octoer 2005)
- Archive: Tiger Tales (1965, Year of Living Dangerously) supports a 2002 BBC World Service radio documentary on Indonesia, focusing on early Suharto era.