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GA-00887 1956-03-23 De Waarheid rel A

PKI een miljoen leden

PKI has one million members: Aidit interview with Ogonyok

De Waarheid, 23 Mar 1956, p. 2: Moscow dispatch that the PKI has one million members, per Aidit in an interview with the Soviet magazine Ogonyok; SOBSI has 2.6 million, the peasant union BTI 2.5 million, Pemuda Rakjat 700,000 and Gerwani about 500,000. Useful as a contemporary membership figure for Gerwani.

GA-00492 1963-06-01 Algemeen Handelsblad rel B

Communisten in Indonesië: Geïsoleerde positie, ondanks vijf miljoen aanhangers (Komunis di Indonesia: posisi terisolasi meski lima juta pengikut)

Communists in Indonesia: isolated position despite five million followers

Algemeen Handelsblad analysis by a contributor (1963-06-01) on the PKI's isolated position despite about five million followers. It credits the PKI with 1 million members plus 1.5 million in 'the communist women's organisation Gerwani', and discusses food prices, the lifting of the state of siege, SOKSI's rise and West