The Acoma Party (Indonesian: Partai Acoma) was a communist party in Indonesia. It evolved out of the Young Communist Force (Angkatan Comunis Muda, known by its acronym 'Acoma'). Acoma was converted into Partai Acoma on 8 August 1952.[2] Acoma/Partai Acoma was led by Ibnu Parna.[3]
Politically, Partai Acoma was close to the Murba Party.[6] However some Acoma militants joined PKI, such as the Acoma leader Sidik Kertapati (who became a Central Committee member of PKI).[7]
Partai Acoma constituted a minority faction in SAKTI, the Indonesian Peasants Union. The party was able to delay for two years the merger of SAKTI into the PKI-led peasants organizations.[8]
In the 1955 parliamentary election, Partai Acoma got 64,514 votes (0.2% of the national vote). One parliamentarian was elected from the party, Ibnu Parna.[3][9] After the election Ibnu Parna joined the National Progressive Fraction, a body of ten MPs from Java.[10] In the Constituent Assembly, Acoma supported the Social-Economic bloc.[11]
In the early 1950s, Partai Acoma began developing contacts with the TrotskyistInternational Secretariat of the Fourth International.[12] In 1956 Ibnu Parna took part in the world congress of the International.[13] In 1959 Partai Acoma was affiliated to the International Secretariat of the Fourth International as its Indonesian section.[3]
In February 1959 Ibnu Parna was arrested for having denounced the rule of General Nasution in a pamphlet, in spite of having parliamentary immunity.[14]
^Malaka, Tan, and Helen Jarvis. From Jail to Jail. Monographs in international studies, no. 83. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1991. p. cxliii
^Feith, Herbert. The Indonesian Elections of 1955. Interim Report Series. Ithaca, N.Y.: Modern Indonesia Project, Southeast Asia Program, Dep. of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell Univ, 1957. p. 60