Kutip:
Thanks for the reponse kewlcity.

I still have several questions linger in my mind regarding the Sept 30 GESTAPU in Indonesia. But from what I've gathered this should be the explanation to it.

1) First of all, the only possible explanation would be Soeharto was backed by the CIA. At the time, the West, especially US was very concerned about the rapid spread of Communism. Cuba was one hour away from the Continental USA (Florida), USSR and China were the two big Communist countries and Vietnam was adopting fast, and the US went the distance by blocking the spread of Communism by entering to the Vietnam War. Indonesia is obviously next on the list. Soekarno might not be a Communist, but he's obviously giving the West a hard time. In fact, Soekarno and several other third world country leaders, such as Nehru of India, were building a new coalition (I believe known as Non-Bloc organization). It's bad enough the US had to deal with Communism. If the rouge nations such as India, Srilanka, African countries, and other South East Asian nations built another coalition, the situation would be much harder to control.

2) Soeharto might had been the leader of KOSTRAD. But how powerful was that ? After all, according the research I did, he was penalized for making illegal trades with an Overseas Chinese, by the name of Liem Soe Liong and Bob Hassan (Both were later on became two of the richest Conglomerates in Indonesia and Soeharto's closest cronies). Surely, when Nasution, who was the highest rank Military official, who had a different believe than A. Yani (another Military top official), found out, he removed Soeharto from his power and sent him to Yogya or Semarang (not sure). But in several years prior to the Sept 30 GESTAPU, Soeharto was able to creep back into the Military power and had the power in KOSTRAD. But really, how powerful this KOSTRAD at this time ?
Come on.. Soekarno was the true leader, he's basically the voice of the Indonesian people. A Yani was also another true hero and was the top guy in the military. And the six or seven Generals who was murdered in during the coup was also in support of A Yani, which in turn, was a Sokarno loyalist. The only other Supporter that Soeharto might had was Nasution. But Nasution was higher in Military rank than Soeharto was and didn't Nasution have his own ambition ?

3) Next, the military fractions were divided into two. But the actual situation was more complicated than that. Soekarno himself was not really a pro-Communist, but he liked the presence of Communist because Indonesia could utilize its presence as a balance of power from the American subversion and influences. On top of that, Soekarno would have more leverage to ask for aid and fund from Russia or China. A Yani was not a Communist either, but he was a true loyalist to Soekarno, and therefore supported his believe. Soeharto, on the other hand, I believe had a bad blood with Soekarno and Nasution was a pro CIA Military official. So, both need CIA's backing in terms of financials, funds, logistics, and other necessary means to perhaps get rid of Soekarno.

What I am not clear of is Nasution. Why would he help Soeharto ? Was he in an agreement with Soeharto to create the Sept 30 GESTAPU and later divide the power btwn the both of them. But Soeharto being the smarter one, decided to keep him quiet all those time by immediately put him into a house arrest ? But Nasution had more power than Soeharto at this time, why couldn't he use his power to outmanuver Soeharto ?

4) It's clear that Soeharto uses his own men or at least, utilize his CIA backing to create the Sept 30 GESTAPU, and made it seemed like the Communist was behind it. But again, I didn't quite understand how Soeharto, only being the head of KOSTRAD, could have eliminated the entire Communist party and its organization ? The communist party was one of the largest parties in Indonesia at the time. Their members were spread out everywhere in the military and government. How could Soeharto, all of the sudden, be that powerful ? The Communist party had the power and men necessary to retaliate as well, so why couldn't they do this ? KOSTRAD was not a large division of the Indonesian military. And most of Soekarno loyalist, including the Air Force still had a chance to retaliate. Some Indonesian historians said, it is because Soekarno was a True Nationalist. He didn't want to create a civil war in Indonesia. Instead, he decided to follow along, and just gave in to Soeharto.

But do you really think that this is the truth ? After all, Soekarno just declared himself as President for Life. And from all his past political career history, he seemed to be an ambitious guy who always stood up for his rights. Yes, he's a loyalist but I think he had his own ego as well. So, what actually happened between 1965 to 1967 ? How in the world did Soeharto with his cunning and brilliant strategies, were able to control and eliminate all the Communist fractions in the military and government, contain Nasution, control the media, control young University students of Indonesia, and finally corner Soekarno and strip him from all the power, which was known as the March 11 Letter of Supersemar.

All this time, obviously, Soeharto still maintained illegal trades with his long-term Chinese cronies to finance his activities and off course, get fund and all necessary support from the CIA. There's no doubt about that, because Indonesia immediately became quiet supporter of US right after Soeharto took the office. The US during this time, also orchestrated the Rupiah downfall which led to the cutting of the Rupiah and finally, the riots and mass economic struggle during this time, and led the University students and young Indonesians to believe that Soekarno was not doing his job the way he should

However, I still couldn't believe what happened during these last two years of Soekarno's reign. He was slowly but swiftly dismissed from all his might by Soeharto, which was unheard of at the time. And yet, none of his supporters or the Indonesian people stood up and supported the father of Indonesian independence. There's a missing piece somewhere, and I want to know what it is. I wish I could ask Soeharto himself.

Any insights ? suggestions ? ideas ?