Indonesian National Party

Indonesian National Party
Partai Nasional Indonesia
Original founderSukarno
Founded
  • 4 July 1927 (first incarnation)
  • 21 August 1945 (second incarnation)
  • 29 January 1946 (third incarnation)
Dissolved
  • 25 April 1931 (first incarnation)
  • 31 August 1945 (second incarnation)
  • 10 January 1973 (third incarnation)
Merger of
  • Serindo
    members of smaller parties
Merged intoPDI
Succeeded byClaimed:
HeadquartersJakarta
Student wingIndonesian Nationalist Student Movement
Youth wingIndonesian Democratic Youth, Marhaenist Youth Movement
Women's wingIndonesian Democratic Women
Membership
  • 10,000 (1929)
  • 1,466,783 (1950)
Ideology
Political positionLeft-wing

The Indonesian National Party (Indonesian: Partai Nasional Indonesia, abbr. PNI) was the name used by several nationalist political parties in Indonesia from 1927 until 1973. The first PNI was established by future President Sukarno. After independence, the new PNI supplied a number of prime ministers, and participated in the majority of cabinets in the 1950s and 1960s. The party was fused into the Indonesian Democratic Party in 1973. In the years following the reforms of the late 1990s, a number of parties claiming to be the continuation of previous PNIs stood in elections, but gained only a handful of seats.