Communist Insurgency In Indonesia

Indonesia
The Dutch and the Communist Insurgency in Indonesia
Communism and socialist ideologies emerged to combat the capitalist colonizers. The Dutch still had the power over the lands of Indonesia in 19th century, they enslave and maltreated the Indonesian nationals, exploited its natural resources and controlled the laws and the constitution in the country. They imposed strict policies and regulations to control different insurgencies and social movements, they continued to repress social and human rights.
In 1914, communist insurgency was formally established by a Dutch leader, Henk Sneevliet. The Indies Social Democratic Association (ISDA), was established by all the Dutch that resides in Indonesia. It was formed by combining the two

In 1965, Sukarno, as the first president of Indonesia made a way to balance the different side to ease the conflicts. From the PKI, the military, the nationalist factions and the Islamic Group that was threatened due to the rising power of PKI. The rising power of PKI also concerns the United States and the other anti-communist western powers.
But in 1965 – 1967, the PKI was faced with different problems, issues and inside anomalies. Also, the failed coup that was said to be perpetrated by the PKI became the reason for the party’s downfall. Anti-communist emerged to power together with the help of the United States. In the anti-communist purge through subsequent violence, an estimated 500,000 communists (or suspected) were killed, and the PKI effectively destroyed.
US Intervention: The Blurry Role of the United States to Indonesia
Based from the documents and articles, United States intervened to the different insurgencies in Indonesia was because of Sukarno’s actions and the increasing power of the Communist Party of Indonesia

Indonesia started to create and impose anti-American policies that caught the United States attention.
Second, Sukarno wanted to rewrite the constitution of Indonesia and free it to the colonial concepts. He wanted to rewrite laws that supported the exploitation of the country’s resources. Sukarno threatened to expropriate the two major US oil companies (Caltex and Stanvac) in Indonesia, this triggered the United States as it affects their investment plans.
The event that most intensified the conflict between United States and Indonesia, was when Lyndon Johnson became the President of the United States. Johnson created much more anti-Sukarno approach. In fact, from 1962-65 there was a gradual but complete cutoff of all economic aid from the US to Indonesia. But Johnson was able to do strategic actions. He increased the military aid to Indonesia and he supported and trained paramilitary anti-PKI groups. The Johnson’s administration invested $5 million in bringing approximately 2,100 Indonesian military personnel to the US for