Garis Partai Komunis Indonesia Diuraikan: Wawancara Setiati Surasto (Indonesian Tribune, Tirana, 1974; terjemahan JPRS 1975)

Title: JPRS (1975) - Indonesian Communist Party Line Described, Setiati Surasto interview, Indonesian Tribune Tirana 1974 [Translations on South and East Asia 583-605, HathiTrust coo.31924082071691] Source: HathiTrust Digital Library (full view, US government work), page OCR text via text-only view Volume: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924082071691 Date retrieved: 2026-10-17 Note: page-image PDFs could not be downloaded (HathiTrust temporarily blocked image downloads); OCR text only. Page #946 INDONESIA INDONESIAN COMMUNIST PARTY LINE DESCRIBED Tirana INDONESIAN TRIBUNE in English No 4, Vol 8, 1974 pp 4-5 [Text] In a recent interview given to Radio Tirana, Setiati Surasto, leader of the PKI delegation to the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of Albania's liberation, has given a general outline of the current situation in Indonesia and the tasks being faced by the PKI and the Indonesian revolutionary people to overthrow the Suharto fascist military regime and to win liberation. At the beginning of the interview, Setiati Surasto spoke of her deep impression of all that she had seen in Albania during her visit here and expressed the PKI's most warmhearted gratitude to the Party of Labour of Albania for the invitation to attend the anniversary celebrations. Apart from attending the celebrations, Setiati Surasto had also been given the opportunity to visit various projects of socialist construction in industry and agriculture as well as social-cultural institutions. All of them, she said, indicated the great progress made by Albania in following the road of socialism during the past 30 years since liberation. "They testified to the correctness of the Marxist-Leninist line pursued by the Party of Labour of Albania in building socialism," she added. As for the current situation in Indonesia and the PKI's tasks in the light of this situation, she had this to say: I wish to affirm that Indonesia today is a new-type colony of U.S. imperialism and a semi-feudal country. Economically, she is completely dependent on imperialism, and political power there is in the hands of the bureaucrat capitalist, comprador and landlord classes, who all are out-and-out in the service of imperialism. The Suharto fascist regime has thrown the door wide open for foreign capital investment and has sold out the country's riches to imperialist monopoly capital. That being the case, Indonesia has Page #947 again become a cheap source of raw materials and labour and an outlet for the increasingly high-priced industrial products of the imperialist countries. The working people are suffering more heavily. The total number of unemployed and semi-employed people has reached 28 million. Living costs and prices of basic necessities continue soaring. Peasants are being subjected to exploitation and oppression by the landlords, bureaucrat capitalists and imperialists. Democratic rights are being trampled under the heels. In addition to banning the Communist Party of Indonesia and revolutionary mass organizations, the Suharto fascist regime has also dissolved all political parties by forcing them to merge into two parties, which together with its own party, the Golkar, have been placed under its control. Trade unions, peasant's, fishermen's, women's, youths and students' organizations too have been subjected to similar measures. The Suharto regime is still continuing its terror, arrests and persecution. Today there are no fewer than 100,000 people languishing as political prisoners in hundreds of prisons and detention camps in all parts of Indonesia. The fascist regime's foreign policy cannot but reflect its home policy. It relies on and wholy serves U.S. imperialism and conducts close collaboration with reactionary regimes of various Southeast Asian countries. In the military sphere, the regime has been made a gendarme of U.S. imperialism. For this reason it has received increasingly big quantities of military equipment from U.S. imperialism and its allies, such as Australia. In the face of such a situation, the Communist Party of Indonesia has worked out a line for its struggle. This line indicates that in order to realize the Indonesian people's aspirations to be freed from exploitation and oppression by imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism, the Suharto fascist military dictatorship must be smashed. This is the primary task of the Indonesian revolution at present. In order to assure victory for this revolution, which is a people's democratic revolution, the Indonesian Marxist-Leninists must fulfill the tasks spelled out in Party's Three Banners: first, the building of a Marxist-Leninist party which is free from subjectivism, opportunism and modern revisionism; second, the people's armed struggle which in essence is the armed struggle of the peasants in an anti-feudal agrarian revolution under the leadership of the working class; third, the building of a revolutionary united front based on a worker-peasant alliance under working class leadership. For every Indonesian communist and revolutionary aspiring for liberation, the immediate task in the revolution is to arouse, organize, arm and mobilize the masses of the people and build Indonesia's backward villages into powerful revolutionary bastions which are consolidated in the political, military, economic and cultural fields. It goes without saying that on the basis of this fundamental line, the Communist Party of Indonesia also leads and carries out other forms of struggle, such as struggles to support social-economic demands which are linked with political demands. The Indonesian communists and revolutionary people are resolved to carry