Labour Party of Indonesia
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Labour Party of Indonesia
Partai Buruh Indonesia |
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| Chairman | Setiadjit |
| Founded | September 15, 1945 |
| Dissolved | 1948 |
| Merged into | Indonesian Communist Party |
| Women's wing | Working Women's Front |
| Membership (1946) | 1,000 |
| Ideology | Left wing |
| National affiliation | Sajap Kiri, People's Democratic Front |
The Labour Party of Indonesia (Indonesian: Partai Buruh Indonesia, PBI) was a political party in Indonesia.
The party was founded as a national trade union center, the Indonesian Labour Front (Barisan Buruh Indonesia, BBI), on September 15, 1945. At the BBI congress November 9, 1945, BBI transformed itself into a political party and adopted the name PBI.
Initially PBI was run by individuals who had worked at the Labour Department during the Japanese occupation. But in 1946 Setiadjit returned to Indonesia from exile in the Netherlands, and he assumed leadership of the party and became its chairman. Under Setiadjit, the collaborationist elements lost control over the party. Setiadjit's takeover in PBI was done with active support from the Indonesian government, as Sukarno had feared strong 'anarcho-syndicalist' tendencies of PBI. During the first year and half of the party under Setiadjit, the party was closely aligned with the larger Socialist Party.
The mutation of BBI into PBI was not uncontroversial inside the BBI ranks. A group that wanted to concentrate on trade unionism left the party, and refounded the BBI on December 31, 1945. This BBI later adopted the name Gasbi.
The party joined the Konsenstrasi Nasional bloc, a pro-government alliance formed in May 1946. In October 1946, the government was broadened to include leaders from several political forces. A new pro-government coalition, Sajap Kiri, was founded to support the Linggadjati Agreement with the Dutch government. Sajap Kiri consisted of the PBI, Socialist Party, Pesindo and the Communist Party of Indonesia. At the time, the PBI was estimated to have around 1,000 members.
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