Socialist Party of Indonesia Partai Sosialis Indonesia | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Sjarifuddin |
| Founded | 13 November 1945 (1945-11-13) |
| Dissolved | December 1945 (1945-12) |
| Merged into | Socialist Party |
| Headquarters | Djakarta[citation needed] |
| Ideology | Socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Colors | Red |
TheSocialist Party of Indonesia (Indonesian:Partai Sosialis Indonesia,Parsi) was asocialist political party inIndonesia. It was founded at a meeting inJogjakarta on 13 November 1945.[1] The Defence MinisterAmir Sjarifuddin was the chairman of the party.[2] Parsi was largely made up by Amir Sjarifuddin's former colleagues from thewartime resistance struggle inEast Java. Some of them originated inGerindo ('Indonesian People's Movement'), aleftwing, nationalist and pro-Sukarno group active before the war. There were also some persons, like Abdulmadjid, Moewaladi and Tamzil, who had lived in theNetherlands during the war, and taken part in theanti-fascist resistance struggle there.[1] The primary objective of Parsi was the independence of Indonesia from colonial rule, which was to be followed by the construction of asocialist society.[3]
In December 1945, at a meeting inCheribon, the party merged with theSocialist People's Party (Paras), forming theSocialist Party with Amir Sjarifuddin as vice-chairman.[2] However, even after the merger, the erstwhile Parsi and Paras groups continued to exist as factions inside the new party. Generally speaking, the former Parsi members represented a more radical and populist line.[4] Paras leaderSutan Sjahrir and many of his followers left the Socialist Party in 1948. In August of that year, the Socialist Party issued a statement ofself-criticism. The statement said that whilst Parsi had been founded by underground communists, it had not taken the shape of acommunist party. Moreover, the statement lamented the merger with the 'rightwing' and 'reformist' Paras.[5] After this point, the former Parsi members were largely the ones who stayed in the Socialist Party whilst former Paras members left alongside Sjahrir. There were however some notable exceptions, likeWijono, who had been a Parsi militant but ended up as one of the main leaders of Sjahrir's new party.[6]
