• Underground in Jogjakarta with the PRD small town and village Indonesia, especially in Java, Sumatra and Bali. Many other national PRD leaders remain free and operational, including Andi Arif, chairperson of SMID.
The other reason why the PDI has developed its Despite the hunt for him, he still is able to organise media interviews. In the national weekly magazine Gatra radical image is the persistent struggle its member- of 24 August an article on the rise of discussion groups and interest in Marxism in the university city of ship has waged over the last three years against the Jogjakarta began: "Andi Arif still speaks explosively." It goes on to quote him one month after the arrest order. dictatorship's interference in its internal life, "I'm still here in Yogyakarta, heh, quite secure you see." He had arranged the meeting with the journalist Megawati Sukarnoputri. Ever since she first came especially over the issue of the chairpersonship of somewhere in Jogjakarta and had sately got there "wearing a I-shirt with the word democracy on it, and a attempted to keep her out. It was necessary for the forward as a potential PDI head, the dictatorship has a part of their studies. "Discussion about Marxism, the new left, was free on our campus. The vice-chancellor Arif confirmed to the journalist that student activists had indeed discussed Marxism, even communism, as PDI to conduct extraordinary congresses to allowed us to study whatever we liked." The article went on to document how a number of activists involved in overcome the regimes interference. The Megawati these discussions were later arrested and gaoled for circulating the books of the great Indonesian novelist PDI leadership is the first political leadership system that has persistently defied the dictatorship. operating inside the dictatorship's formal political This fact, combined with the reputation of involvement in the rioting. They shouldn't just be lashing out like this." Assisting the PRO/s ongoing efforts is activists should not surrender. The government should follow the rule of law. Lets see them prove PROS Arif also told Gatra that SMID activists would not surrender. "We have issued instructions that SMID Megawatis father, former President Sukarno, for being completely uncorrupted and a friend of the "lite people", has transformed Megawati into a symbol of defiance and the desire for democracy.
picture of a person holding up a red fist."
Pramoedya Ananta Toer.
consolidate, produce leaflets... continue the struggle!" *
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