Bintang Merah

Bintang Merah (Indonesian: Red Star) was a magazine of the Communist Party of Indonesia which published in Jakarta from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1950 to 1965.

[1] With all the newspapers banned, Musso, the PKI leader, went on Radio Gelora Pemoeda and denounced the government of Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta, stating that they were following a policy of capitulation towards the Netherlands and that they had risen to power during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies with ties to Japan.

But they still faced occasional persecution; in August 1951 there were mass arrests of leftists of various parties in East Java, and editor (and PKI central committee member) B.O.

[4] This was after an earlier round of raids on Communists in East Java, which Hutapea had called a "politics of demoralization" being waged against them by the government.

Hutapea escaped and lived in hiding for several years, being finally killed in a shootout with police in Blitar, East Java in 1968.