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Kesaksianku tentang G30S (Soebandrio, sekitar 2000)

My Testimony about G30S (Soebandrio, c. 2000)

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Testimony of Dr Soebandrio, Sukarno's deputy prime minister, written after his 1995 release, arguing the 30 September Movement was a provocation exploited by Suharto's circle. Elite memoir; Gerwani is peripheral context.

Kesaksian Dr Soebandrio, wakil perdana menteri Sukarno, ditulis setelah bebas 1995, yang berargumen G30S adalah provokasi yang dimanfaatkan lingkaran Suharto. Memoar elite; Gerwani hanya konteks periferal.

People

SubandrioDjono W. OesmanSuhartoSukarnoUntungAbdul LatiefYoga SugamaAli Murtopo

Organisations

Communist Party of IndonesiaCentral Intelligence Board

Places

Jakarta

Events

30 September Movement

Topics

1965 coup and aftermathmemory, testimony and justicehistoriography

Tags

eyewitness accountprisoner releases

Details

Date
2000
Creator
Soebandrio
Document type
memoir/testimony (political memoir / testimony (book-length, edited from the author's recollections; digital PDF copy))
Language
Indonesian
Perspective
Testimony/memoir
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Source archive
archive.org · source link
Access
PDF of unknown provenance in Nath's Gerwani folder (digital copy circulating online; no publisher information on the file); retrieved/copied 2026-10-13. Open circulation; check for a printed edition before formal citation. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Soebandrio. (n.d.). Kesaksianku tentang G30S [My testimony about G30S] (D. W. Oesman, Ed.) [Unpaginated digital edition, c. 2000; commentary dated 18 September 2000]. Publisher not stated.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/Soebandrio (c. 2000) - Kesaksianku tentang G30S.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.97) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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