Peasants Front of Indonesia
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Barisan Tani Indonesia |
Peasants Front of Indonesia (Indonesian: Barisan Tani Indonesia) was a peasant mass organisation connected to the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). BTI was founded 25 November 1945. The previous peasant organisation of PKI had been the Peasants Union (Serikat Tani) formed in 1945. Its final general chairman was Asmu, the PKI's main agricultural analyst, who was appointed to the position in July 1962.[1] The organization struggled for land reform, and was suppressed along with PKI in 1965.
References
[edit]- ^ Hindley, Donald (1964). The Communist Party of Indonesia, 1951-1963. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 169. ISBN 9780520005617.
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