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 ' there was indeed some combat between the g s 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 ' 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