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A.H. Nasution’s Fraught Ties with the PKI

Monday, August 18, 2025

Nasution was determined to block the PKI. But after retirement, he quietly aided the children of its leaders.

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General Abdul Haris Nasution (left) and Chair of the Indonesian Communist Party D.N. Aidit at the Soviet Union Embassy in Jakarta, 1963. Indonesia Through the Russian Lens. tempo : 178036306679.

ONE afternoon in late 1960, the car carrying Deputy Speaker of the Provisional People’s Consultative Assembly (MPRS), Dipa Nusantara Aidit, sped toward the State Palace in Jakarta. Suddenly, another vehicle swerved past sharply. Aidit’s wife, Soetanti, made a quip. “That’s the kind of overtaking Nasution would do,” said their son, Iwan Hignasto, recalling his mother’s words in a special interview with Temp

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