Word: aidit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Errant Schoolboy. As the deadline approached, Indonesia's Communist Party abandoned its pro-Sukarno stance for the first time. Party Secretary D. N. Aidit called the anti-Chinese law "shoddy chauvinism, inspired by racial hatred and a desire for personal gain." Peking sent what Indonesia's Foreign Minister Subandrio called "as peremptory a diplomatic note" as Indonesia had ever received. Alarmed, Subandrio hustled off to the Red mainland to talk things over. He got the cold shoulder. Roused from his bed in the middle of the night to see Mao, he was lectured like an errant schoolboy. Complaining...
...islands and its 85.5 million people. The well-matched opponents are the only two organizations in the nation that are European in structure, efficiency and administration: 1) the army, under Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, 40. 2) the Communist Party, under the leadership of Secretary-General Dipa Nusantara Aidit, 36. These days the Communists are taking a silent licking...
Broken Strike. At the Soviet's 21st Party Congress in Moscow last January, slim, supple Red Boss Aidit could boast the best vote-getting Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain, and he promised Nikita Khrushchev that Indonesian Reds would deliver 8,000,000 ballots if elections "were held tomorrow" (in the 1957 regional election the Reds became Indonesia's top party with 6,940,000 votes). All this had been done in a scant ten years, for Communist prestige in Indonesia was at zero after the Reds tried to pull a coup in 1948, which was easily crushed...
...Aidit's strength, outside a disciplined party of up to 1,500,000 members, rests on half a dozen well-infiltrated Indonesian mass organizations that loyally support Communism's interests. They include: the labor confederation SOBSI (2,750,000), the Pemuda Rakjut youth organization (800,000), the Perbepsi veterans group (200,000), the peasant B.T.I. (250,000) and the Gerwani women's movement (75,000). Western intelligence officers also believe that there are 300 secret party members in "sensitive and unsuspected" government positions...
...Boss Aidit slowly journeyed home from Moscow, with stops at the Soviet Asian city of Tashkent, where his wife is studying medicine, and at Peking in Red China, he got word that President Sukarno had decided to go back to the old constitution of 1945, to include 35 army officers in his government, and to exclude the Reds from the Cabinet and from major governmental posts...