`  :Well, there was a hot war going on in the background of TYOLD (the Konfrontasi) - the whole ``Living Dangerously`` line was based around Sukarno's words ushering in of hot conflict against Malaysia, UK, etc. But on the point of Indonesian Civil War - at least at the beginning of '65, there was indeed some combat between the ``G30S`` forces and those loyal to Suharto. I'm of the opinion that the period of combat was brief, and that after Jakarta was seized by Nasution-Suharto loyalists the casualties were very lopsided - hence, why the PKI's Central Committee-in exile called it just a ``White Terror.``   :But of course, however, the same group criticized Aidit for not adhering to Mao's ``People's War`` doctrine - so one could imagine that there were those sectors of the PKI that were spoiling for a conflict. Hence, I titled it Indonesian Civil War rather than Indonesian White Terror or Indonesian Coup - it keeps things NPOV and open to different scholarly interpretations.  :By, I should point out that I have an interesting hard copy ``self critical`` document the PKI Central Committee published from China detailing what they perceived as their mistakes in '65 and attempts to re-establish the Party. Unfortunately, it is without copyright information printed (this was likely due to attempts to get around import restrictions during the U.S. Cold War). I am looking forward to contributing some choice quotes to round out Indonesian Civil War. At any rate, toodles.  `