People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Political and party leadership 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any United States state institutionsstate 50 Hungarystate 26 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 25 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 22 Czechoslovakiastate 20 East Germanystate 20 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 18 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 17 Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 1

All 125 affiliations

Afghanistan

Afghanistanstate 4 People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) 4

Albania

Albaniastate 4 Party of Labour of Albania 4

Algeria

National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1

Angola

Angolastate 7 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 10

Australia

Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1

Austria

Austria state institutionsstate 1

Benin

Beninstate 3

Brazil

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 1

Bulgaria

Bulgariastate 3 Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) 3

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso state institutionsstate 1

Cambodia

Cambodia state institutionsstate 2 Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) 2 Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) 2 Democratic Kampucheastate 2 People’s Republic of Kampucheastate 1

Chile

Chile state institutionsstate 1

China

Communist Party of China 2 Kuomintang 1

Congo - Brazzaville

Republic of the Congostate 6 Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) 3

Cuba

Cubastate 5 Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) 5 26th of July Movement 1

Czechia

Czechia state institutionsstate 1

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakiastate 20 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 25 Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party 3

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 7 New People's Party of Korea 2 Democratic Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of North Korea 5 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 6

DR Congo

DR Congo state institutionsstate 1 Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 22 East Germanystate 20

Ethiopia

Ethiopiastate 4 Workers' Party of Ethiopia 1

Finland

Finland state institutionsstate 2

France

France state institutionsstate 7 French Communist Party (PCF) 6 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Germany

Germany state institutionsstate 10 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 17 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 12 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) 5 Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) 8

Ghana

Ghana state institutionsstate 1

Grenada

Grenadastate 1 New JEWEL Movement (NJM) 1

Guinea-Bissau

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 1

Hungary

Hungarystate 26 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 15 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 12 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) 14 Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSZDP) 4 Independent Smallholders' Party (FKGP) 4

India

India state institutionsstate 1 Indian National Congress 1

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1 United Nations 2

Italy

Italy state institutionsstate 1 Communist Party of Italy / Italian Communist Party (PCdI/PCI) 3 Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 1

Japan

Japan state institutionsstate 1 Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 1

Laos

Laosstate 4 Lao People's Revolutionary Party 3

Lithuania

Lithuania state institutionsstate 1

Madagascar

Madagascarstate 2

Mongolia

Mongolian People's Party / Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party 1

Mozambique

Mozambiquestate 2 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 3

Poland

Polandstate 14 Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) 18 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Communist Party of Poland (KPP) 5 Polish Workers' Party (PPR) 11 Polish People's Party (PSL) 2 Polish Socialist Party (PPS) 2 Freedom Union (Poland) 5 Democratic Union (Poland) 4

Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) 1

Romania

Romaniastate 8 Romanian Communist Party (PCR) 8

Russia

Russian Federation state institutionsstate 1 United Russia 1 Our Home – Russia 1

Somalia

Somaliastate 3

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 2 African National Congress (ANC) 2 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) 1

South Korea

South Korea state institutionsstate 2 Communist Party of Korea 2 Workers' Party of South Korea 2

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 6 Soviet Unionstate 1

Spain

Spain state institutionsstate 1 Spanish Republicstate 2 Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 1

Tanzania

Tanzania state institutionsstate 1

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan state institutionsstate 1

United Kingdom

United Kingdom state institutionsstate 4 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 2 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 2 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 1

United States

United States state institutionsstate 50 Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1 Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 4 Democratic Party (United States) 15 Republican Party (United States) 15

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 13 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 11

Yemen

Yemen state institutionsstate 2 Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) 6 South Yemenstate 4

Yugoslavia

Yugoslaviastate 8 Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 7
Position
Any Marxism and communism 1
Citizenship
Any Indonesia 1
Background
Any Indonesia 1
Era(set)
Any

People of the wider world

The revolutionary wave and the world war1917–1945 2 The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재 Clear all
GlossaryCommunist Party of Indonesia (PKI)

Dipa Nusantara Aidit

Dipa Nusantara Aidit
Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) Communism Indonesia Indonesia 1923–1965 ✕ Executed

The organizer who built Indonesia's CP into the world's third-largest communist party

“Marxism is a guide to action, not an inflexible dogma.” — a phrase he repeated to PKI cadres

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), 1951–1965. Working within Sukarno's Marhaenism framework, he systematically built mass organizations across labor, peasant, women's, youth, and cultural sectors, leading the PKI to become Indonesia's largest party in the 1955 elections. Under his leadership the PKI grew to over 3 million members (the world's third-largest communist party) before he was executed alongside its annihilation in Suharto's 1965–66 anti-communist purge.

Career timeline
  • 1939–1942Active in Gerindo (Indonesian People's Movement) youth organizations
  • 1943Joined the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)
  • 1944–1945Leadership of the underground anti-fascist Gerakan Indonesia Merdeka
  • 1947–1948PKI Central Committee member → Politburo member
  • 1951–1959General Secretary of the PKI
  • 1959–1965Chairman of the PKI Central Committee
  • 1959–1965Concurrently member of the Supreme Advisory Council, deputy speaker of the MPRS, and minister without portfolio
  • 1965.11.22Captured in Central Java and summarily executed