Memories Of The G30S Incident: Jakarta Pencam And Evacuation Of Bung Karno's Family To Bandung

Soldiers with heavy weapons stood guard around Jakarta after the G30S incident broke out on September 30, 1965. (Co Rentmeester/LIFE)

JAKARTA - The events of the September 30th Movement (G30S) in 1965 shocked the whole of the archipelago. People are just aware of the emergence of groups who want to carry out a coup. They kidnapped and killed TNI AD generals.

This condition made Jakarta tense on October 1, 1965. The military began to be deployed to extinguish the fire of the rebellion. The streets were blocked. Armored cars were alerted. This condition made President Soekarno arrested. His family did not forget to be evacuated to Bandung.

The emergence of the G30S incident was very surprising. The rebel group tried to kidnap the army generals who were considered to be disrupting the direction of power. Even though his name was the G30S, the incident actually occurred on October 1, 1965 in the early hours of the morning.

At that time rebel forces began to divide groups to pick up snare existing generals. From Ahmad Yani to DI Panjaitan. They were then taken to Lubang Buaya and executed.

The incident was initially untraceable. Because, it was done while the whole of Jakarta was still asleep. Those who know about the kidnapping of generals are only limited to close family. Other Jakarta residents do not.

The rebel forces then appeared openly through the voice funnel of the Radio Republic of Indonesia (RRI). They forced radio broadcasters to deliver their statements trying to thwart the coup by high-ranking TNI AD officials.

Even the information on the radio clearly states that Lieutenant Colonel Untung is the Commander of the G30S. The announcement made Jakarta even more excited. The people of Jakarta are advised to stay at home. Jakarta Street that day became a place for armored cars to go downstream.

Fully armed forces were alerted here and there and they blocked the streets. The people also live in fear. They imagine a bad event that will happen to Indonesia.

What exactly happened and where the president was still unclear. Many stories spread about the raw ground in the elite Menteng area where a number of generals lived. For safety's sake, schools sent students home early."

The offices are starting to empty, and the first armored cars are starting to slide on the streets. In a moment Dolly sharpened her gaze and threw her outside look. A little further from her house, the soldiers have blocked the road," recalled Delly Zegerius, who incidentally was the mother of a high-ranking Pemuda Pancasila mass organization, Yapto Soerjosoemarno as written by Hilda Janssen in the book Tanah Air Baru, Indonesia (2016).

Bung Karno and the citizens of Jakarta have something in common. They both fell asleep and only recently learned of a rebel group. Bung Karno started trying to carry out his activities as usual.

Bung Karno on September 30 stayed at his wife's residence, Ratna Sari Dewi at Wisma Yaso (now: Satria Mandala Museum). Bung Karno then stepped from Wisma Yaso to the State Palace at O6:00 am on October 1, 1965.

Problems arise in the middle of the road. Datasemen Kuwal Pribadi (now: Pasmpampres) who escorted Bung Karno received information that the Palace was the target of the rebels. Bung Karno's car then swerved to his other wife's house, Haryati in Slipi.

He then asked his bodyguards to investigate the rebellion. He, who knew the results of the G30S, immediately fled to Halim. Bung Karno already felt the danger of starting to threaten. He considered the danger of starting to threaten.

Bung Karno immediately took a stand. He wanted to know all kinds of chronologys of the presence of a tense atmosphere that in Bung Karno's view was called the October One Movement (Gestok).

Bung Karno then asked Paspampres to pick up his children at the Merdeka Palace to be taken to Halim. After that, they were flown to Bandung. The goal is to keep Bung Karno's family members safe.

Rachmawati Soekarnoputri, Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, and Guruh Soekarnoputra flew from Halim to Bandung by helicopter. The three of them in Bandung were placed at their mother, Fatmawati, who was recovering ill.

Then Guntur Soekarnoputra and Megawati Soekarnoputra who were in Bandung immediately visited Wisma Siliwangi III. A place where Mrs. Fat is recovering. They were also safe with super tight guard. Later the coup was immediately suppressed by the Commander of the Army Strategic Command (Kostrad), Suharto. The figure who later became President of Indonesia The second person filled immediately filled the vacancy of the AD and eradicated the rebels on the same day.

Mrs. Fat's surprise grew when Rachmawati, Sukmawati, and Guruh suddenly appeared. They got on the helicopter driven by Steven Adam. It was clear that the three of them panicked and lacked sleep.

"Rachma and his two younger siblings have been ordered not to tell Mrs. Fat for the good of Mrs. Fat's health, silent a thousand languages. But finally Mrs. Fat found out that a bloody coup had been carried out by the G30S and a number of AD generals were killed in a really heinous way," said Kadjat Adra'I in the book Suka Duka Fatmawati Sukarno (2008).