The Effect of the Failure of the G30s Pki Communism on Political Development in Indonesia
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THE EFFECT OF THE FAILURE OF THE G30S PKI COMMUNISM ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA Arumna Aryani; Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin Faculty of Humanities, Airlangga University [email protected] and [email protected] ABSTRACT Many ideologies develop in the world, one of which is communism. The doctrine of communism is a reaction to a system of capitalism that is considered to lack social sensitivities. In Indonesia itself, this ideology had developed, but not long ago this ideology collapsed precisely after the events of the Movement of September 30, 1965, which is believed to be carried out by the Communist Party of Indonesia. This event led to a change in all fields and one of the affected areas was the political field where there was no political right for those with communist ideology in Indonesia. The purpose of writing this article in addition to completing the course assignment "Philosophy of Science" is also a reference for those who want to know the failure of the Communist Party of Indonesia and its impact on the 21st century in politics. This research is guided by the question of “What are the consequences that arise from the failure of communism in the G30S PKI incident on political development in Indonesia today?”. From this question, information was obtained that the failure of the G30S PKI communism made the Indonesian political sector close the communist gap and restrict all traffic. This case study will be written through the literature review method which is conducted collecting data from several relevant scientific journals. Researchers realize that there are difficulties in collecting quality data that can support research results because of the limitations of journals related to the themes taken. As for recommendations from various research analyses to respect everyone's political rights and don't swallow information that has not been validated. Keywords: Indonesia, communism, PKI, politics INTRODUCTION Communism was the ideology born of Karl Marx. Karl Marx was a philosopher and economist, and political expert. In Indonesia, communists have their history. Before being 'forbidden' after the bloody tragedy in 1965 aka G30S/PKI, communist understanding had developed massively. Communism entered Indonesia pioneered by Hendricus Josephus Fransiscus Marie Sneevliet. Hendricus was a Dutch citizen who came to Indonesia in 1913. Together with Adolf Baars, Hendricus founded the Indische Sociaal Democratische Vereeniging (ISDV). Initially, the organization did not prop up communists but gradually transformed itself into a communist view. (3) After the success of the revolution in Russia, they entered mass organizations to spread this understanding, one of which was Sarekat Islam (SI) led by Semaun. (8)Then SI split into SI Merah and SI Putih. Finally, SI Merah became the Communist Party and rebelled in 1926, 1948 to 1965 which resulted in the fall of Sukarno. Five years later, precisely in 1917, the communist party of Indonesia (PKI) was born. However, the name PKI has not been big because it was created secretly and became a left faction in SI. Historically in Indonesia, the PKI carried out three rebellions. The first rebellion was in 1926. The rebellion failed and the PKI was liberated by the Dutch colonial government. Thousands of people were killed and about 13,000 detained. A total of 1,308 people, mostly party cadres, were sent to Boven Digul, a detention camp in Papua. (12) The underground movement revived the PKI until it returned solidly. In 1948, the PKI launched a second rebellion. The rebellion intended to tear down the Republic of Indonesia and replace it with a communist state. This second attempt again failed. Literature records the third uprising in 1965, again failing. Communism is a failed world ideology. Democracy and capitalism with all their criticisms are much more comfortable and convenient than communism. (17) The nation has for years been haunted by the specter of an obscure communist nose. Anything that smells communist is forbidden, including books. For them, the community in the class structure is one of the reasons for the lack of welfare. (17) With an iron fist, Lenin built a new society. Power under Lenin removed private ownership of all banks, shutting down all productive businesses and markets. He also destroyed the noble class, distributed land to farmers to later turn it into a state cooperative that provoked fierce resistance from farmers, and broke the dominance of religious institutions. In Indonesia, communism is often identified with atheism or not acknowledging the existence of God. The understanding that communism was atheist refers far to Marx's idea that religion is an opiate for society. According to Marx, religion is opium that can dampen pain. For the oppressed, religion is the savior. (11) Religion advises those who are oppressed to be patient in hope and interpret that order as God's way of educating His people. In other words, religion perpetuates order. (4) There is also a criticism of Marx for the religion that makes people submit to the situation. Religion is not empowering. Religion has no revolutionary disposition to change the state of communism. The greatest experiment in the history of humanity to create a just and prosperous society in communism failed miserably. Welfare doesn't manifest. The great shock to international communism occurred in 1991 when the Soviet Union died in silence. The superpower collapsed, destroyed. It is difficult to imagine the closed ideology of communism being able to return to life in the political and economic map between countries that are currently so strongly linked to each other to show that communism is not worthy of being embraced not by the phobia of facing the image of a sledgehammer and closing the public's eyes to the hidden story of the events of 1965, but rather opening the widest space so that the public can get acquainted, discuss, and criticize what communism is. The state should give assurances to the public that discussions around these issues take place safely without the intimidation of dissolution. What the police have to defend is an open discourse in public spaces, not a community that wants to disband those discourse spaces. (18) Deceit never advances a nation. The way to fight stupidity is to fulfill people's right to information. The discussion in the article uses descriptive qualitative theory and analyzes the existing problems. Based on the problems presented above, the stigma of society towards communists who had been in Indonesia influenced the political development that existed in this era of globalization. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of the failure of communism in Indonesia to answer the question "What are the consequences that arise from the failure of communism in the G30S PKI incident on political development in Indonesia today?". METHOD The research model used by the author is to use the Literature review method. The use of this method is based on the related situation in which the writing of this article is taken from national and international journal data. The literature review is a research method in which the data of research results are obtained from sources collected from some books, journals, other studies related to the topic of the author's research. This method aims to compare several theories that exist and are relevant to the problems studied as a reference of the results of research discussions. This library review can be used to see what has been done related to the topic being researched. The research in this article is guided by the following research question: What was the beginning and existence of communism in Indonesia and how did the failure of communism in the 20th century affect the political development in the 21st century? To answer the question, the researchers collected several journals related from Google Scholar to answer these questions by analyzing the data obtained. The data analysis techniques in this article use thematic analysis that is, get results by compare (find similarities from some literature), contrast (find differences from some literature), and criticize (give opinions based on the source read). RESULTS Literature Review in this study was conducted to find out the question of how communism began in Indonesia and its existence, and the influence of communist failure in the 20th century on political development in the 21st century. After several journals were collected from several accredited journal sites, 20 journals that supported the research topic of this article were obtained. The results of the 20 journals reviewed as reference articles are journals that discuss the history of communists in Indonesia, eight journals discussing criticism and issues related to the ideology of communism in Indonesia, four journals discussing communism from the point of view of a branch of science, and six journals discussing related to communism and politics in Indonesia. Based on the 20 journals obtained results in general the failure of the Communist Party of Indonesia had an impact on the silence of political rights related to communist ideology. DISCUSSION 1. The Beginning of the Development of Communism in Indonesia The entry of communism in Indonesia was started by a Dutchman named Hedricus Josephus Fransiscus Marie Sneevliet in 1913. He and his colleague Adolf Baars founded an organization called the Indische Social Democratische Vereeniging (ISDV) whose original purpose was not to prop up communists but, over time, became communist. (1) At that time, the Revolution in Russia had a success that led them to spread communist understanding into many mass organizations, one of which was Sarekat Islam (SI) under semaun leadership. SI split into two namely SI Putih and SI Merah which became the Communist Party and carried out several rebellions. In 1917, exactly five years after the existence of SI Merah, the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) was formed.