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Political Mobilization in Indonesia: Nationalists against Communists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

B. Gunawan
B. Gunawan
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam
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The bond between nationalists and communists in the Indonesian independence movement was always close. For this reason the failure of the communist rising of 1926–27 was felt in nationalist circles as a blew for the Movement. It is also typical that the communist rising of 1948 did not lead to a ban on the Indonesian Communist Party, the PKI, whereas the anti-communist sweeps of 1951 were not received in outside circles with whole-hearted approval. The co-operation between nationalists and communists rested thus on more than a simple battle for independence. The nationalists, just as much as the communists, attributed a positive significance to the public masses, which were to harbour all the prosperity of the nation. These popular masses were supposed to be bowed down by imperialism and capitalilst exploitation, so that the Indonesian nationalists also made the liberation of the popular masses a point of policy.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , May 1973 , pp. 707 - 715
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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