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| {{Infobox political party|name=Communist Party of Indonesia|logo=Logo of the PKI.svg|founded=23 May 1914|banned=5 July 1966|membership_year=1965|membership=3,000,000|political_orientation=[[Marxism-Leninism]]|international=[[Third International]] (1919–1943)}}{{Communist Parties}}The '''Communist Party of Indonesia''' (''Partai Komunis Indonesia'') was a communist party in Indonesia. Founded in 1920, it eventually grew to three million members in 1960 and 16% of the national vote in 1955.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Alex de Jong|date=2019-02-01|title=The Indonesian Counter-Revolution|url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/unmasked-graves-review-indonesia-genocide-communist-party|newspaper=Jacobin|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref>
| | {{Communist Parties}}The '''Communist Party of Indonesia''' (''Partai Komunis Indonesia'') was a communist party in Indonesia. Founded in 1920, it eventually became a very large party, with three million members in 1960 and 16% of the national vote in 1955.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Alex de Jong|date=2019-02-01|title=The Indonesian Counter-Revolution|url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/unmasked-graves-review-indonesia-genocide-communist-party|newspaper=Jacobin|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> In 1965, the far-right dictator [[Suharto]] came to power in a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] coup and overthrew the democratically elected [[Sukarno]].<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Steve Kangas|date=|title=A Timeline of CIA Atrocities|url=http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html|newspaper=|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> The CIA provided Suharto with lists of suspected communists and Suharto killed at least half a million to a million people in 1965 and 1966<ref>{{Citation|author=Geoffrey B. Robinson|year=2018|title=The Killing Season|chapter=|section=|page=|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=|isbn=9780691161389|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref>. The Communist Party of Indonesia was banned in 1966, and the CIA secretly admitted that Suharto's purges were "one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century."<ref>{{Citation|author=David F. Schmitz|year=2006|title=The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships|chapter=|section=|page=48|quote=|pdf=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EV440YU6toC&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false|city=|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521678537|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> |
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| == Growth ==
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| Much of the PKI's leadership died in a failed revolution in 1948.<ref name=":122222">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2008|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World|chapter=Bali|page=|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceascnzh26r5d6uitjjs2z7rflhaxlt7rboz5whzdf76qg6xxvecqq?filename=%28A%20New%20Press%20People%27s%20history%29%20Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20The%20darker%20nations_%20a%20people%27s%20history%20of%20the%20third%20world-The%20New%20Press%20%282008%29.pdf|publisher=The New Press|isbn=9781595583420|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B40B96E830128A7FE0E0E887C06829F}}</ref><sup>:152</sup>
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| Between 1951 and 1964, the party grew from 5,000 to two million members in addition to 15 million members of its mass organizations, including 7.5 million in the [[Indonesian Peasants' Front]]. It was based in east and central Java but spread to other islands in the 1950s. The 1953 Central Committee members were all in their thirties, including General Secretary [[D. N. Aidit|Aidit]], who was 31.<ref name=":0222">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2017|title=Red Star over the Third World|chapter=Polycentric Communism|page=119–121|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacecu7gb2ei65us6ip3r2ugcgkblneqcftbm456mb6bzvprkbqk55qm?filename=Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20Red%20Star%20Over%20the%20Third%20World-LeftWord%20Books%20%282018%29.pdf|city=New Delhi|publisher=LeftWord Books}}</ref> By 1955, 30% of soldiers were PKI members.<ref name=":122222" /><sup>:153</sup>
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| == Revolutionary activities ==
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| In February 1965, the [[Plantation Workers' Union]] seized land occupied by the US Rubber Company in North Sumatra. In 1965, the party gained a million members and reached 18 million in its mass organizations.<ref name=":0222" />
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| == Mass killings ==
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| In 1965, the far-right dictator [[Suharto]] came to power in a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] coup and overthrew the democratically elected [[Sukarno]].<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Steve Kangas|date=|title=A Timeline of CIA Atrocities|url=http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html|newspaper=|archive-url=|archive-date=|retrieved=}}</ref> The CIA provided Suharto with lists of suspected communists,<ref>{{Citation|author=Geoffrey B. Robinson|year=2018|title=The Killing Season|chapter=|section=|page=|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=|isbn=9780691161389|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> and he killed at a million people in 1965 and 1966, including Aidit. Many [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] militias only had two or three days of training.<ref name=":0222" /> | |
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| The Communist Party of Indonesia was banned in 1966, and the CIA secretly admitted that Suharto's purges were "one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century."<ref>{{Citation|author=David F. Schmitz|year=2006|title=The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships|chapter=|section=|page=48|quote=|pdf=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EV440YU6toC&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false|city=|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521678537|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> The party was unable to defend itself because it was unarmed.<ref name=":0222" /> | |
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| == References == | | == References == |
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| [[Category:Communist parties]]
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