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A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965, Coup in Indonesia (Prepared in Jan. 1966)

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This is a book for people interested in the history of Indonesia during the changeover from the regime of its first president, founder and eventual dictator, Sukarno, and that of his successor General Suharto, also a dictator, who presided over some of the country's best and worst times. It was written, in the early days after the so-called coup attempt of 30 September 1965, by two supremely knowledgeable Indonesianists who did not wait for the facts to emerge before coming out with their conclusions. We may never know whether they were fundamentally correct or not in their conclusions, but this book damaged their reputations in the field they most cared about.