Very late at night on September 30, 1965—really, it was already the early hours of October 1—the Gerakan 30 September met at Halim Air Force Base, the same airport where Francisca and Zain had made their first modest home in a garage fourteen years earlier. The leaders of the September 30th Movement were from the Armed Forces: Lieutenant Colonel Untung, for example, was a stocky military man who had attacked Dutch troops in the fight for West New Guinea; and Colonel Abdul Latief was a distinguished commander who had fought in the revolution against the Dutch in the 1940s. They organized seven
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