What will happen to DN Aidit's family after G3SPKI?
This video will depict the conditions and situation of the Aidit family after the bloody tragedy of September 30, 1965. These are:
Ahmad Aidit, Aidit's father
Dr. Soetanti, Aidit's wife
Iwan Aidit, Aidit's eldest son
Irfan Aidit and Ilham Aidit, Aidit's twins
Iba and Ifa, Aidit's daughters
Murad and Basri Aidit, Aidit's younger brothers
On the night of September 30, 1965, Abdullah, D.N. Aidit's father, spent the night at his son D.N. Aidit's house on Jl. Pegangsaan Barat 4, Central Jakarta.
He saw his eldest son, D.N. Aidit, taken away by three soldiers and a personal bodyguard named Kusno.
Aidit never returned home. Neither did his wife, Dr. Soetanti, who left without saying goodbye.
Abdullah then took care of his three grandchildren: Iwan, Irfan, and Ilham. Luckily, the house still had two servants and family members from Belitung.
Abdullah saw a violent mob approaching the house. "They were shouting and throwing stones at our house," Ilham Aidit recounted in the book "Dua Wajah Dipa Nusantara." The incident occurred after the discovery of the bodies of the five generals at Lubang Buaya, or the day after Aidit's departure.
Aidit's three sons were then transported by their uncle to Kebayoran, South Jakarta.
What happened to the Aidit family after the 1965 uproar?
According to Abdullah's youngest son, Murad Aidit, his father flew to Belitung with the help of Deputy Prime Minister Chaerul Saleh.
However, he fell ill during his three-year stay there. He eventually died, and his body decomposed after three days because the house was empty. His second wife, Marisah, was staying with relatives, and neighbors rarely visited the house for fear of being affected by the September 30th incident.
A few days after Basri Aidit, D.N. Aidit's younger brother, moved to the PKI Central Committee office in Kramat, Central Jakarta, from working at the Tanah Abang Public Works Department, the September 30th incident erupted.
The day after the incident, he was arrested along with several other PKI members. He was detained in Kramat prison, then in 1969, exiled to Buru Island. His wife and children sold everything in the house to survive while Basri was in prison. After everything was gone, they relied on the help of relatives, acquaintances, and friends.
Basri Aidit left Buru in 1980 with the help of his family in Belitung. He bought a house in Bogor and farmed while teaching English to neighborhood children. When he died, he left only 2.5 million rupiah to his children and grandchildren.
Murad Aidit suffered a similar fate to his other brothers. He came to Jakarta after graduating from Dutch-era high school and joined Aidit as a teenager. Murad knew many of Aidit's friends at Menteng 31, the student dormitory at the time.
During the September 30th incident, he stayed overnight at Aidit's house before leaving with three soldiers who picked him up. Aidit only gave Murad a brief message: "Turn off the headlights."
The next day, upon returning home to Depok, Murad learned that several generals had been killed and the PKI accused of involvement. But he made no attempt to hide.
During that critical situation, Murad visited the PKI office. The usually bustling headquarters suddenly fell silent. Murad was arrested a few days later.
Murad was transferred to prison in several places. He was imprisoned in Bogor, Bandung, Salemba, and then on Buru Island in 1971.
He was isolated in Unit 15, a detention center specifically for high-ranking PKI officials and students whom Sukarno had sent to study abroad. Murad was released in 1979. His wife, Noer Cahya, died shortly after his release from the Pelantungan women's prison in Kendal, Central Java.
Murad graduated from Lumumba University in Moscow with the faculty of economics and was friends with many literary figures, including Chairil Anwar. Before his death, he lived in Depok and made a living translating books.
Doctor Soetanti, Aidit's wife, had a heated argument with her husband on the night of September 30th. Tanti wanted her husband to stay at home and not follow the wishes of his captors, but Aidit chose to leave.
Three days later, Tanti disappeared from home, leaving her three young sons behind. It was recently revealed that Tanti followed her husband to Boyolali and met the Regent of Boyolali, who was also a PKI figure. Shortly thereafter, she returned to Jakarta in disguise. Tanti and the Regent pretended to be a married couple. To ensure the success of this disguise, "two children were then adopted," said Ilham.
They rented a house in Cirendei, Jakarta, and the scheme worked for months until neighbors became suspicious because the Regent always said "injih-injih" to his wife. The behavior of the two adopted children was also suspicious, as they were never spoiled by their parents, said Ilham. Consequently, both were arrested.