Post AoLHVLr2CWDtg1ENCS by carkner@historians.social
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 (DIR) Post #AoLHVDAuTFm2l3ScQi by carkner@historians.social
       2024-11-23T16:48:21Z
       
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       trying to write a wikipedia biography of a guy who sat in several #Indonesian parliamentary sessions post independence and came across this amazing chart/pamphlet of all the parties that ran in the 1955 legislative election. so many communist and socialist splinter parties, nationalist, religious, and ethnic parties. source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IndonesianParty1955.jpg#Indonesia #IndonesianHistory #PoliticalParties #communism #Sejarah #DPRRI
       
 (DIR) Post #AoLHVEbt8QwrD15g7U by carkner@historians.social
       2024-11-23T16:50:38Z
       
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       it reminds me a bit of an exhibit I saw in the Apartheid museum in Johannesburg, they had a wall display of all the parties that ran in the first democratic election after the fall of Apartheid and there were dozens of local, single-issue, ethnic, and niche parties. the flowering of parties under newfound freedom
       
 (DIR) Post #AoLHVGAJLw4s24CgPg by carkner@historians.social
       2024-11-23T17:34:16Z
       
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       The one that jumped out at me was BAPERKI, a left-wing Chinese organization which ran candidates only in this election, although it existed till 1965 & the rise of the Suharto dictatorship. They advocated for a distinct Chinese Indonesian identity within a multiethnic Indonesia, as opposed to say diasporic politics (eg. main focus being ties to Taiwan/PRC) or assimilation into local ethnic groups (as preferred by Ong Hok Ham & other signers of the 1960 Towards Voluntary Assimilation manifesto)
       
 (DIR) Post #AoLHVHTqSnIU6wLnV2 by carkner@historians.social
       2024-11-23T17:38:43Z
       
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       I like a lot of the ones with little dramatic logos. As far as I can tell this is for a regional Acehnese party although I'm not completely clear who Zainoel Abidin Sutan Radjo Lelo was. maybe this guy? https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z.A._Sutan_Pangeran
       
 (DIR) Post #AoLHVJ1CkFZksgxx8S by carkner@historians.social
       2024-11-23T17:45:02Z
       
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       this one has to be the lowest-effort, drew-it-on-a-napkin party logo😏 although I actually like the swimming upstream concept. not sure which Hadji Moehammad this refers to!
       
 (DIR) Post #AoLHVKOzbICLAl6Squ by carkner@historians.social
       2024-11-23T17:48:18Z
       
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       another one I love the logo of. I'm also not clear on what this party Kario Siregar was, apparently an ethnic Batak faction based in Medan which may not have elected a member in the end. Sibualbuali is the name of a volcano in North Sumatra and I'm not sure what the laden-down bus is a reference to.
       
 (DIR) Post #AoLHVLr2CWDtg1ENCS by carkner@historians.social
       2024-11-23T17:54:32Z
       
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       another back-of-the-napkin logo that gave me a chuckle. I couldn't figure out much about what the party IKRUPINS stood for. apparently another nationalist, national development type party coming out of Java that never elected any members.
       
 (DIR) Post #AoLHVNYfrkj0xeejrM by carkner@historians.social
       2024-11-23T17:59:49Z
       
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       Here's another one I like the logo of. Again unclear what the Biro Pedjuang Pembangun Republik Indonesia (Office of Fighters for Development of the Republic of Indonesia?) was, but I like the "man straddling the world holding a giant steering wheel" party logo.