Aliarcham

Aliarcham, Indonesian communist, early 1930s

Aliarcham (c.1901-1933) was a Sarekat Islam and Indonesian Communist Party party leader, activist and theoretician in the Dutch East Indies.[1][2] He was a major figure behind the PKI's turn to more radical policies in the mid-1920s.[3] He was arrested by Dutch authorities in 1925 and exiled to the Boven-Digoel concentration camp, where he died in 1933. He became a well-known Martyr, especially among Communists and Indonesian nationalists.[4]

  1. ^ Aliarcham: Sedikit Tentang Riwayat dan Perjuangannya (PDF) (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Akademi Ilmu Sosial "Aliarcham". 1964. pp. 1–34.
  2. ^ McVey, Ruth Thomas (2006). The rise of Indonesian communism (1st Equinox ed.). Jakarta: Equinox Pub. p. 262. ISBN 9789793780368.
  3. ^ Mrázek, Rudolf (2020). The complete lives of camp people : colonialism, fascism, concentrated modernity. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 19. ISBN 9781478006671.
  4. ^ Mrázek, Rudolf (2018). Sjahrir : Politics and Exile in Indonesia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 134–5. ISBN 9780877277132.