Communist Party of Indonesia

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The Communist Party of Indonesia (Indonesian: Partai Komunis Indonesia, Indonesian pronunciation: ['partaɪ koˈmunɪs indo'nesija], PKI, [ˈpekai̯]) was a Marxist-Leninist and Maoist communist party in the Dutch East Indies and later Indonesia. It was founded in 1914 as the Indies Social Democratic Association, became the Communist Union of the Indies in 1920, and adopted the name PKI in 1924. The Dutch colonial government banned the party after failed uprisings in 1926 and 1927, but it re-emerged during the Indonesian National Revolution after the Japanese surrender in 1945. Under D. N. Aidit, the PKI grew rapidly during the 1950s. It finished fourth in the 1955 Indonesian legislative election, receiving 16.35% of the vote and winning 39 out of 257 seats. By the mid-1960s, it had about three million members and was supported by large labour, peasant, youth, women's, and cultural organizations. The party supported President Sukarno's system of Guided Democracy and became the communist element...

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