Gestapu: Indonesian Short Stories on the Abortive Communist Coup of 30th September 1965 (original) (raw)

1975, Center for Southeast Asian Studies with the School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Sudies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa eBooks

How could he kill his own brother, Suryoputro, who was given birth to by the same mother as he? Arjuna felt weak. Krishna reminded him: Arjuna, Arjuna. Arjuna, you are a warrior. The duty of a warrior is to fight. The duty of a warrior is to wage war, when it is called for. It is the duty of a warrior to safe guard, defend his country. This is the task of a warrior. It is true, they are your brothers on the other side. Your own teacher. They will destroy the stat~ of Pandawa. Strike back at them. This is your task and your duty. Carry out your task without regard to the conse 3 quences. That, night six members of the alleged Council of Gen~rals were killed by members of the palace guard, the Tjakrab,~rawa, under the 4 command of Lt. Col. Untung. Three of the generals were taken alive to Halim airbase, out side Jakarta: Major General Parman, Major General Huprapto and Brigadier General Sujoto. Three were taken there dead: Brigadier General Pandjaitan, Major General Harjono and Lieutenant General Achmad Yani. A seventh, General Nasution. escaped. elthough his young daughter subsequently died of gun wounds. Ar eighth, Major General SUharto, was not at home. At Halim, the living generals were killed in a particularly brutal fashion, in the presence of members of the co~unist women's or anization, Gerwani, and the communist youth movement, Pemuda x 13. Robert R. Jay: Javanese Villagers, Social Relations in Rural Modjokuto (The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1969) p. 279 (slightly altered). 14. On the distinction between socio-cultural groups in Java empha sizing Islam (the santri) or syncreticist Javanese belief (abangan),