The Attempted Coup in Indonesia
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- recent developments
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly
- Vol. 25, 144-168
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000027831
Abstract
For years, observers have been able to fit developments in Indonesia into the neat framework of a balance of forces between the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the army. The coup attempt of October 1, 1965, which came within a hair's breadth of effecting an irrevocable shift in this balance of forces in favour of the PKI, compels us to re-examine the validity of this frame of reference. The facts of the abortive conspiracy lead me to believe that the Sukarno-PKI relationship under-went a gradual qualitative change and, at some point prior to the illuminating flash of October, became the core of a political dynamo that was propelling the Indonesian revolution forward at an accelerating rate.Keywords
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