September 30 remains a dark day for Indonesians
In Indonesia, the date of September 30 (1965) is a very "hotbutton" issue in the country. The darkest day in Indonesia, when some generals were killed. The charges made against the Communist Party which was later dissolved.
Jakarta (AsiaNews) - September 30, 1965 was the darkest day in modern Indonesian history. A turning point that years later led to a fierce political battle for the first president of the nation Sukarno (sometimes written as Soekarno) in confronting the emerging figure of the army, General Suharto.
On that day, some senior officers of the 7th Army were assassinated in a coup attempt. The conspirators were accused of having contacts with the Communist Party (PKI).
The bloody killing of the generals prompted the students (pictured) to make a strong demand to ban the PKI. Of course, with the support of Suharto who later came to power as the country's second president.
Reluctant to ban the PKI, President Soekarno was then forced to leave power in 1967 after the Indonesian People's Council (MPR) unanimously rejected his speech on accountability. General Suharto's new government imposed house arrest on him until his death in 1970. While the PKI was banned.
Politically motivated emergency?
A few days before September 30, the "orchestrated" call arises to view the film entitled Pengkhianatan G30S / PKI (The betrayal of the PKI movement of September 30). And in the past few days, these calls have once again surfaced on social media.
A campaign aimed at a political program, both to create public "hatred" against the already dead PKI, and against politicians in the House who have close ties with their "ancestors" who in the past had links with the PKI.
A similar political gimmick was used by the authoritarian Suharto regime to banish Sukarno's followers and now the same move is also intended to discredit the followers of former president Megawati. Megawati is the daughter of President Sukarno, she has always fought religious radicalism and has supported the spirit of pluralism as a fundamental value of the Pancasila, the political platform of the nation "created" by her father, President Sukarno.
Many inaccurate facts
Speaking today via an online media, Prof. Asvi Marwan Adam of the Indonesian Science Agency (LIPI) harshly criticized the publicly orchestrated "project" for the public screening of the film Pengkhianatan G30S / PKI once again.
"There are a lot of inaccuracies in the film," this historian says today. He adds that the initial motive for the film's release was merely to promote "national hatred" against the PKI and its followers. Irrational today, since PKI was officially banned in 1967.
The film is outright propaganda used since the Suharto era to blame the PKI for being the "mastermind" of the bloody killing of 7 senior army generals on September 30, 1965.
Reconciliation
Indonesia under President Joko Widodo in his first term (2014-2019) held a history symposium where both "camps" came together, forgetting the past and building a new chapter.
Army General Agus Widjojo, now head of the Indonesian Defense Resilience Agency, was among the key figures in speaking out for the victims of the September 30, 1965 events. General Sutoyo, his father, was shot dead fires from attackers. But at the 2016 symposium, she boldly forgave her father's attackers. "This symposium - he said - is really very useful to close the past chapter, and while the new one opens, we would benefit from the lessons of the past".
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