Remembering Ahmad Yani, general assassinated at the G30S event

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – On the morning of October 1, 1965, Tjakrabirawa troops shot at Lieutenant General Ahmad Yani at his residence in Menteng, central Jakarta. At the time, Ahmad Yani refused to be invited by Tjakrabirawa’s team.

“Suddenly I saw my father being dragged. Suddenly I heard the sound of gunfire,” Ahmad Yani’s daughter Amelia Achmad Yani said when she spoke to Kompas.com in 2017.

There were seven bullets fired by Tjakrabirawa’s troops on October 1, 1965 at 0435 WIB. Five of them left bullet holes in a door.

Quoted from Kompas Daily, August 14, 2017, General Ahmad Yani Museum guide Sergeant Major Wawan Sutrisno revealed that the troops who entered through the back door and killed Ahmad Yani at the time.

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Meanwhile, others are tasked with taking over Ahmad Yani’s cleanup crew. There are also those in charge of besieging the house.

Then Ahmad Yani’s body was taken by truck to a plantation area in Halim, east Jakarta.

There, Ahmad Yani was finally dug into an old pit with six generals and two other officers.

Ahmad Yani was one of the 6 generals killed in the September 30 Movement (G30S).

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Born on June 19, 1922 in Purworejo, Central Java, Ahmad Yani died at the age of 43.

In the book G30S, Fact or Engineering? (2013) of Julius Pour, Commander of Battalion I of the Tjakrabirawa Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel (Inf) Untung Samsoeri, led the coup attempt.