Indonesian Communist Party
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Communist Party of Indonesia
Partai Komunis Indonesia |
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| Abbreviation | PKI |
| Founder | Henk Sneevliet |
| Founded | May 1914 |
| Banned | 1966 |
| Headquarters | Jakarta |
| Newspaper |
Soeara Rakjat Harian Rakjat |
| Student wing | CGMI |
| Youth wing | People's Youth |
| Women's wing | Gerwani |
| Labour wing | SOBSI |
| Peasant wing | BTI |
| Membership (1960) | 3 million |
| Ideology |
Communism, Marxism–Leninism |
| International affiliation | Comintern (until 1943) |
| Colors | Red |
| Election symbol | |
| Hammer and Sickle | |
The Communist Party of Indonesia (Indonesian: Partai Komunis Indonesia, PKI) is a communist party in Indonesia that existed in throughout the mid-20th century. It was the largest non-ruling communist party in the world prior to being eradicated in 1965 and banned in the following year.
An important early organization was founded by Dutch socialist Henk Sneevliet and another Indies socialist who basically form harbor labor in 1914, under the name Indies Social Democratic Association (in Dutch: Indische Sociaal-Democratische Vereeniging, ISDV). ISDV was constituted essentially by the 85 members of the two Dutch socialist parties, SDAP and Socialist Party of Netherlands who would later become communist SDP, residing in the Dutch East Indies leadership. The Dutch members of the ISDV introduced Marxist ideas to educated Indonesians looking for ways to oppose colonial rule.
In October 1915, ISDV began a publication in Dutch, Het Vrije Woord (The Free Word). The editor was Adolf Baars. The ISDV did not demand independence at the time of its formation. At this point ISDV had around 100 members, out of whom only three were Indonesian. However, it rapidly moved into a radical and anticapitalist direction. This however changed when Sneevliet moved ISDV's headquarters from Surabaya to Semarang and began attracting many natives from like-minded religious, nationalist and other activist movements whom had been sprouting throughout the Dutch Indies since 1900. ISDV under Sneevliet became increasingly incompatible with the SDAP leadership in the Netherlands, who distanced themselves from the ISDV, beginning to label them as the "faking" Peoples Council (Volksraad Volksraad). In 1917 the reformist section of ISDV broke away, and formed their own Indies Social Democratic Party. In 1917 ISDV launched its own first publication in Indonesian, Soeara Merdeka (The Voice of Freedom).
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