PKI

Pengkhianatan G30SPKI a pexianatan e tia pulh s pe ka i Indonesian for Treachery of G30SPKI is a 1984 Indonesian docudrama written and directed by Arifin C. Noer, produced by G. Dwipayana, and starring Amoroso Katamsi, Umar Kayam, and Syubah Asa. Produced over a period of two years with a budget of Rp.800million, the film was sponsored by Suhartos New Order government. It was based on an official history of the 30September Movement GerakanSeptember , or G30S coup in 1965 written by Nugroho Notosusanto and Ismail Saleh, which depicted the coup as being orchestrated by the Communist Party of Indonesia Partai Komunis Indonesia , or PKI.

Pengkhianatan G30SPKI was based on the version of the coup endorsed by Suhartos New Order government, in which the 30September Movement GerakanSeptember , or G30S coup was orchestrated by the Communist Party of Indonesia Partai Komunis Indonesia , or PKI. b In the early 1960s the PKI and other leftist parties had the support of President Sukarno, giving them great political power. By 1965 the PKI claimed millions of members, a growing number influenced by hyperinflation and widespread poverty. The Army, however, was distrustful of the PKI, a feeling which the PKI reciprocated.On the night ofSeptember1 October 1965, a group of Indonesian National Armed Forces members calling themselves theSeptember Movement captured and killed six Army generals thought to belong to an antirevolutionary Generals Council, including Commander of the Army Ahmad Yani another target, Abdul Haris Nasution, escaped. The bodies, along with those of others captured by the G30S, were dumped down a well at Lubang Buaya, Jakarta. Later that morning, armed forces occupied Merdeka Square in central Jakarta. From the Radio Republik Indonesia RRI office there, LieutenantColonel Untung Syamsuri of the Presidential Guard announced that the movement had secured several key locations in the city in an attempt to forestall a coup by the Generals Council. They also announced that President Sukarno was under their power. The movements core leadership, later joined by the President, stayed at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base. ........

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