“The time line is wrong. Sukarno was out, and with him over one million Communists and ethnic Chinese in indonesia were murdered by the moslems.”
I disagree. The timing was perfect for the KGB to try to get back into Indonesia any way they could, especially by trying to build back a network of agents to replace those recently wiped out.
IMO, Indonesia and its Straits of Malacca and vast treasure of natural resources is the final domino of the “domino theory.” The Japanese Empire grabbed it from the Dutch 70 years ago to feed their empire and the Soviets wanted it during the cold war. Now the Chinese want the entire South China Sea right up to the beach in Malaysia and will doubtless try to intimidate the Indonesians into realigning with China as the US weakens despite the recently announce “pivot.”
Remember, always, the overseas Chinese community is still more economically powerful than the crowd in Big China ~ and they have their own interests. The Russians are hardly in the same league. Sure, they got nukes but who they gonna' aim them at