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Telegram 1425: Joint Situation Report no. 51, 12 November 1965

Telegram 1425: Joint Situation Report no. 51, 12 Nov 1965

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US Embassy Joint Situation Report no. 51, 12 Nov 1965: Army-Sukarno contest plus a security section on riots in Makassar, a massacre of 200 PKI prisoners in Bone and arrests in Jakarta. No Gerwani mention; shows how killings were framed as a 'security' item.

Joint Situation Report no. 51 Kedubes AS, 12 Nov 1965: tarik-ulur Angkatan Darat-Sukarno serta bagian keamanan tentang kerusuhan di Makassar, pembunuhan 200 tahanan PKI di Bone dan penangkapan di Jakarta. Gerwani tak disebut; menunjukkan pembunuhan dibingkai sebagai butir 'keamanan'.

People

SukarnoA.H. NasutionGanis HarsonoSubandrioPaul F. Gardner

Organisations

Communist Party of IndonesiaIndonesian National Armed ForcesRadio Republik IndonesiaNahdlatul UlamaIndonesian Islamic Union PartyUS Embassy in Jakarta

Places

JakartaMakassarBoneKudusTangerang

Events

Mass killings of 1965–66

Topics

killings 1965–66arrests and detention1965 coup and aftermathUSA and UK

Tags

army in politics

Details

Date
1965-11-12
Creator
US Embassy Jakarta
Document type
government record (diplomatic telegram (outgoing embassy situation report, Joint Sitrep No. 51))
Language
English
Perspective
Intelligence/diplomatic record
Source role
primary
Country
USA
Period
1965–1966
Access
National Security Archive (George Washington University), Electronic Briefing Book 'Indonesia Mass Murder 1965: U.S. Embassy Files', posted 17 October 2017 (EBB number and exact URL to verify; landing page at nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/indonesia/2017-10-17/...). Open access. The documents come from the roughly 30,000 pages of Jakarta embassy post files (1964 to 1968) declassified by NARA in 2017 under the Indonesia declassification project (NARA declassification authority NND 67299 stamped on the page). PDF downloaded into Nath's Gerwani folder; retrieved 2026-10-13. Cloud OCR text slice plus page images rendered at 80 to 110 dpi for checking. [v2 re-check, Oct 2026: full transcription of every page against page images; see titles file v012__6.json.] Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
U.S. Embassy Jakarta. (1965, November 12). Joint sitrep no. 51 [Telegram 1425 to Secretary of State, Washington, priority to CIA, CINCPAC, DOD and White House; Secret]. In National Security Archive, Indonesia mass murder 1965: Previously classified U.S. embassy files [Electronic Briefing Book]. The George Washington University. (Original in NARA, RG 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State, Jakarta post files).
File
01 Primary Sources/1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records/US Embassy Jakarta files (1965-1967) - Indonesia Mass Murder 1965, briefing book documents (National Security Archive EBB 2017)/US Embassy Jakarta (1965-11-12) - Telegram 1425 to Secretary of State [NSA EBB doc 12].pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.886) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records › US Embassy Jakarta files (1965-1967) - Indonesia Mass Murder 1965, briefing book documents (National Security Archive EBB 2017)
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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