The crackdown is a backlash to Indonesia's bid to probe anti-communist massacres from 50 years ago JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian activist Adlun Fiqri could be jailed for wearing a T-shirt ...

The anti-communist purges of the mid-1960s ... spreading communism — which remains outlawed in Indonesia — through logos on t-shirts. They have also seized books about communism and stopped ...

A RECENT spate of arrests of people for wearing T-shirts with symbols of the ... Children of the Armed Forces (FKPPI) and the Indonesia Anti-Communist Front (FAKI). Ironically, the event was ...

A Malaysian was detained by Indonesian authorities in Mataram, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia, for wearing a T-shirt with an image of the communist hammer and sickle symbol that has been banned in ...

Indonesia’s Communist party was all but wiped out in the wave of anti-Communist slaughter that followed the party’s abortive coup in 1965. Since the pogrom, Indonesia’s leadership has warned ...

He blamed the assassinations on Indonesia's Communist Party and claimed they were targeting Islamic leaders. No conclusive proof of communist involvement in the coup has been produced, but the ...

In Communication against Capital, Rianne Subijanto tells the story of how socialists in 1920s Indonesia mobilized against colonialism. With rallies and journals, strikes and education, their movement ...

Indonesian activist Adlun Fiqri could be jailed for wearing a T-shirt allegedly ... blamed on communists. He rose to power on the back of the bloodshed, and went on to lead Indonesia with an ...

In May 1920, the Perserikatan Komunis di Hindia (the Communist Union of the Indies) was founded, later changing its name to Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI). Semaoen became chair of the party.