August 7, 1967.

THE day they had feared for so long had finally arrived. A year after the People’s Consultative Assembly appointed him as President, Suharto banished Sukarno’s children who were still living in the State Palace.

The general, who had just risen to power, was not pleased that there were still families of people accused of being the ringleaders of the “1965 October 1 Movement” in the central government. He had for the first