User:Merbabu/Transition to the New Order

=Proposed layout= (topic groups - not final headings)

Background

 * Economic crisis, foreign dried up
 * Assertive/nationalist foreign policy stance, Konfrontasi and western alarm at it.
 * Balancing powers, Sukarno the dalang
 * Tensions between PKI and army
 * Background on PKI
 * size, penetrated govt apparatus
 * Success in 1955 election - Sukarno thus gave it prominence, increasingly at the expense of the army
 * Clashes from PKI and landreform
 * 1965 - growing tension between PKI and the army, fifth force proposal => rumours of army takeover

Attempted coup

 * 30 Sepetember, six top generals murdered
 * Led by untung, elements of the army
 * No apparent coordination in the rest of Java, let alone the rest of Indonesia
 * Soeharto mobilises army forces - by evening of 1 October clear that coup had failed
 * Various theories:
 * Army assets that PKI plotted the coup using discontented officers
 * Internal military affair led by younger officers against older leadership
 * That Suharto himself was behind the coup
 * That Sukarto was in the confidence of the conspirators

Entrenchment of the New Order
=Old layout= 1 Prelude
 * 1.1 Military split
 * 1.2 Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation

2 "G30S" and retaliation
 * 2.1 Internal military power-struggle
 * 2.2 Retaliatory campaign
 * 2.3 Toppling of Sukarno

3 Consequences
 * 3.1 Massacres
 * 3.2 Political imprisonment
 * 3.3 Anti-Chinese laws
 * 3.4 Military rule
 * 3.5 Rise of Islamism
 * 3.6 Improved ties with the West

4 Revelations and mysteries
 * 4.1 Was PKI actually involved in the G30S?
 * 4.2 The Anderson theory
 * 4.3 British psyops
 * 4.4 U.S. assistance to Suharto