was later officially blamed on the PKI (see Transition to the New Order). On 2 October, Aidit went to Yogyakarta to meet the regional PKI chairman Sutrisno. After a few hours, Aidit moved to Semarang also to consolidate to the party officials in the region. The meeting concluded that the coup was the Army's internal problem and PKI knew nothing about it. In the afternoon of that day, Aidit went to Boyolali to meet Boyolali regent Suwali who was a PKI member. Aidit then went to Solo to meet the mayor Utomo Ramelan who was also a member. The meeting contradicted the conclusion of the meeting in Semarang. Several Politbiro members including Aidit and M.H. Lukman met in Blitar on 5 October. There Aidit wrote a letter of the PKI view of the coup which was read by Njoto during a cabinet meeting in Bogor. Aidit then fled to Boyolali, where he was captured by forces loyal to General Suharto. According to Zulkifli & Hidayat, on 22 November Aidit was arrested by a search party led by Colonel Yasir Hadibroto in a house in Sambeng Village, Solo. In the early morning, he was brought to Boyolali and was summarily executed as part of the bloody 1965/66 anti-communist purge. Political views According to Ricklefs, Aidit thought that "Marxism was a guide to action, not an inflexible dogma". Aidit sympathized with Musso's Jalan Baru untuk Republik Indonesia (A New Road for Indonesian Republic), though he stated that the Madiun Affair was just "children's games". Legacy Some of his writings were published as The Selected Works of D.N. Aidit (2 vols. Vol. I JPRS-6551; Vol. II JPRS-8886; Washington: US Joint Publications Research Service, 1961). Personal life Aidit married Soetanti in early 1948. Aidit's second son, Ilham, was born on 18 May 1959 in Moscow. Footnotes Bibliography Melvin, Jess (2018) The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder Routledge, UK Robinson, Geoffrey B. (2018) The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 Princeton University Press 1923 births 1965 deaths Communist Party of Indonesia politicians Executed communists Executed politicians Indonesian people of Malay descent People executed by Indonesia by firearm People from Belitung Regency Executed Indonesian people Members of the People's Representative Council, 1955 Indonesian newspaper editors