Footnote No. 2 Dari Harry

By Harry Aveling

Footnote No. 2.

The press did not dare to report these events in detail for fear that they might affect public feelings.” Sinar Harapan. 3rd February 1966 (quoted in A. Brackman: The Communist Collapse in Indonesia, Donald Moore for Asia Pacific Press, Singapore 1970. p. 125).

The stories here were published in the two literary magazines. Horison and Sastra.

In Horison:

• Satyagraha Hoerip. “Pada Titik Kulminasi”, September 1966;
• Gerson Poyk. “Perempuan dan Anak-anaknya”, November 1966;
• Zulidahlan, “Maka Sempurnalah penderitaan saya di muka bumi”, March 1967;
• Sosiawan Nugroho, “Sebuah perjoangan kedl”, October 1967;
• Usamah. “Perang, dan manusia”, August 1969;
• Martin Aleida, “Malam kelabu”, February 1970.

In Sastra:

• Kipandjikusmin, “Bintang maut” , November 1967. and “Domba kain”, May 1968;
• H. G. Ugati, “Ancaman”, JuJy 1969;
• Mohammac Sjoekoer, “Maut” October 1969.

Two further stories are not included here:

• Umar Kayam, “Bawuk”, Horisrm, January 1970, and
• “Musim gugugur kembali di Connecticut”, October 1969,

but are translated in my Indonesian Short Stories, forthcoming from Heinemann Educational Books (Asia), Hong Kong.

A further story by

• Kayam, “Kimono Biru Buat Isteri”, Horison, February 1974 and two others also on the Coup,

will appear in a separate volume of translations of short stories by Umar Kayam.

This list of short stories on the coup originally appeared in the article by

• Satygraha Hoerip: “Pembrontakan Gestapu/PKI dalam Gerpen-cerpen Indonesia”, Budaya Jaya. February 1972.

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Aveling, H. (1975). Gestapu: Indonesian short stories on the abortive Communist coup of 30th September 1965. Southeast Asian studies working paper, no. 6. Honolulu: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/19379 [Accessed 30 Dec 2022] or https://storiesfromindonesia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/gestapu.pdf

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Also look out for:

• M Shoim Anwar (2011) ‘Sulastri dan Empat Lelaki’, Ruang Sastra, 5 December 2011. Available at: https://ruangsastra.com/23277/sulastri-dan-empat-lelaki/ (Accessed: 30 December 2022).
• Perempuan dan Anak-Anaknya, Yoseph Yapi Taum & Antonius Sumarwan Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, 2021, ISBN 9786024815486 https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=HRMxEAAAQBAJ