...Donald Hindley Abstract Prior to the October I, 1965 coup attempt, the leaders of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) controlled the largest Communist organization in any non-Communist state. The Party itself, with some three million members, was the center of a web of mass organizations claiming...

... the victims and perpetrators and implies civilians spontaneously attacked each other until the state intervened to stop them. All the Suharto regime's narratives of history celebrated the “crushing” ( penumpasan ) of the Communist Party of Indonesia (Partai Komunis Indonesia or PKI) while carefully avoiding...

... Communist Party (PKI) is both the oldest in Asia (it was founded on May 23, 1920) and the largest outside the Soviet bloc (its leaders currently claim two million Party members as well as over ten millions gathered in a wide range of mass organizations). Not surprisingly, the history of PKI 410 JOURNAL...

... and with the Indonesian Commu- nist Party (PKI), which in this case had also been working closely with Sukarno. Mozingo points out that the PKI was then pursuing (paradoxically) a pro-Chinese, anti-superpower international policy while at the same time implementing a Soviet-line, peaceful-transition domestic policy...

... precapture document analyzing the failure of G30S, previously used only by A. Haris Nasution in Menenuhi Panggilan Tugas (vol. 6 [Jakarta: Haji Masagung, 1989]) and Victor Fic in Anatomy of the Jakarta Coup (New Delhi: Abhinav, 2004); several short accounts by PKI figures held at the International...

... Indonesia, PKI) leaders became overconfident in the plan and were left unable to respond to the military's aggression in any meaningful way. Roosa then expands on Melvin's “mechanisms of mass murder” by identifying a two-phase national pattern that resulted in party supporters becoming either unable...

... of politics was not an easy one. Former guerillas who had lost out in the 4Liddle 1992, reviewing the Cribb book discussed here, takes more of a "blame the victim" approach in criticizing the Stalinist or hierarchical tendencies of the PKI. BALI AND THE INDONESIAN KILLINGS 779 political formation...

... are the consequences, of the 1965 66 massacre in Indonesia of hundreds of thousands of communists and others affiliated with the communist party (PKI, Partai Komunis Indonesia) by military units and civilian vigilantes? This volume combines several papers by Australian scholars, first presented at conferences...

... Party demography geography Indonesia Nahdlatul Ulama 1965–66 killings PKI population growth Suharto Sukarno With its 255.5 million citizens, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world (Badan Pusat Statistik 2014 ) and the “giant” of Southeast Asia (Hirschman 1994 , 391...

... in August 1950 and linked to the PKI (Indonesian Communist party). Foulcher's starting point is that in post-1949 Indonesia there was a struggle for control of the nature and direction of the new state, which included a struggle within 422 T H E J O U R N A L OF ASIAN STUDIES the arts between what he terms...

... the outset, the Sukarno-Hatta government characterized it as a premeditated, Moscow-inspired coup designed to create a Soviet-style regime not just in Madiun but in Indonesia as a whole. This remains the official Indonesian government view today. The Communist Party (PKI, Partai Komunis Indonesia...

... recent reve- history; hundreds of thousands of Indonesians lations of covert American activities in similar were killed, and the PKI the largest non-ruling Third World situations, it occurs to me that a communist party in the world at the time was potentially fruitful subject for further scholarly...

.... The second, less often acknowledged, occurred over the months following the attempted military coup and took the form of a ferocious campaign of political propaganda and sexual slander against the women s af liate of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), Gerwani. In the account of the coup disseminated...

..., 1990). Kammen and McGregor's introduction sets the agenda for the volume and future studies of the killings. They argue that while much of the previous literature focuses either on the circumstances of the initial coup attempt, the attacks on the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia—PKI...

.... Two contributions deal with the Communist Party (PKI). Ruth McVey explains the appeal of the PKI to young people who lacked connections to the established elite. The party was seen as a "community" and recruitment was like 'religious conversion' to an organization which offered "Communism...

... and frustrating to read. The author is a man passionately committed; he views the history of the Indonesian republic as a struggle between Good and Evil, the former embodied in the socialist leader Sjahrir and former Vice President Hatta, the latter in Sukarno and the PKI. He is deeply distressed by the post...

... of information and relevant to topical events that the academic area specialist in contemporary politics is hard put to avoid chagrin over his own plodding attempts toward publication. As Indonesia's 1965 "coup," PKI deci- 738 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES mation and blood-bath fade rapidly before newer world news...

... President Hatta, the latter in Sukarno and the PKI. He is deeply distressed by the post-revolutionary descent into the pit, and particularly by the role of the United States, which sold Indonesia's promising democracy down the river with the Korean truce "The situation in Asia, in the vital interest...

... to have two solid books on the Indonesian Communist party written prior to the coup of October 1965. Both of them deal primarily with the PKI as it developed in the postindependence period under the leadership of D. N. Aidit, but in spite of the similarity of topic and time they are very different studies...

... declined by 4.4%, pKI vote increased by 7.2%, and the Masjumi/NU combined vote remained stable. While it appears that the 2.8 of the incresed PKI vote explaiinable by PNI decline came from the small non-Islamic parties, this proposition is presently being tested with village-level electoral date. 4...