1. Munawar Musso, commonly known as Musso, was an Indonesian revolutionary and political figure who was the leader of the Communist Party of Indonesia and one of the key figures in the 1948 Madiun affair.
20 Facts About Musso
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Musso's father was a bank clerk in Wates, Mas Martoredjo.
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Musso lived at Tjokroaminoto's boarding house with Alimin and Sukarno.
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Musso was involved in a farmers revolt in Cimareme, Garut supported by Sarekat Islam Afdeling B In the trial, while Alimin confessed to making a false statement to help Tjokroaminoto, Musso refused to make a confession.
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Musso then reorganized the Batavia PKI branch and led this new organization.
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Musso expressed his opinion about the failure of the revolt in Java and Sumatra the year before.
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Musso continued his study at Lenin University in Moscow but he did not graduate.
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Musso married a Russian woman in 1929 and became the father of two children.
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Musso was sent there to consolidate the old PKI that had been crushed in 1927.
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Musso explained the Dimitrov line, a new communist tactical approach, in several newspapers, including three times in Indonesia Berdjoeang.
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Musso instructed the new members to infiltrate and join nationalist organizations.
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However Musso went back to Moscow before the government arrested and exiled him.
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However, Soeripno himself claimed that Musso went there in March 1948.
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Musso planned a communist revolution, consistent with Soviet policy, named A New Road for the Indonesian Republic either in Prague or on the way home.
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The plan, according to Ann Swift, was doubtlessly approved by Moscow, though Musso himself denied this.
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Musso denounced the Indonesian revolution as a bourgeois revolution instead of an authentic proletariat revolution.
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Musso demanded more laborer representatives in the government and the armed forces.
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Musso criticized the PKI movement in his absence, the use of funds from van der Plas - 25000 gulden by Amir Sjarifudin to fight the Japanese army, the resignation of Amir as prime minister without consulting the party, the leader of illegal PKI not hastening the formation of legal party after independence, and complexity of the communist organizations which were divided into the PKI, Pesindo, and SOBSI.
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However, according to Ann Swift and Himawan Soetanto, Musso did not know about this.
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Ricklefs, Musso had no experience in Indonesia so he had no base of political power over the majority of Indonesian people compared to Sukarno.