Asmu Tjiptodarsono | |
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| General Chairman of Peasants Front of Indonesia | |
| In office 12 September 1957 – 12 March 1966 | |
| Preceded by | Djadi Wirosubroto |
| Succeeded by | Position Abolished |
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| Died | November 1965 / March 1966 Indonesia |
| Political party | PBI (1945–1948) PKI (1948–1965) |
| Other political affiliations | Peasants Front of Indonesia |
Asmu, whose birth name was Asmoe Tjiptodarsono, was a leader, theoretician, and chief agricultural expert of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and head of the Communist-affiliated Peasants Front of Indonesia (Indonesian: Barisan Tani Indonesia) in the mid-1960s.[1] He was killed during the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66.
- ^ Van der Kroef, Justus Maria (1965). The Communist Party of Indonesia: its history, program and tactics. Hong Kong: Cathay Press. p. 55.