The Last Night
After Turning Out the Lights
On the final night before his “departure,” Aidit received guests and even quarreled with his wife, Soetanti. Then, everything turned to confusion.
October 2, 2007
The clock indicated it was 9:30pm.
The 6 1/2-year-old boy lowered himself down from his mother’s bed. It was already late. The sound of the wall clock in the family room kept him up on that night of September 30, 1965.
Ilham, the boy, moved quietly to the living room. His father, Dipa Nusantara Aidit, was speaking with Hardoyo, former head of the Indonesian Students Movement (CGMI), a student organization affiliated with the Indonesian Commun
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