Pemuda Pancasila was involved in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, and supported the New Order regime of President Suharto.

This was shortly after President Sukarno's decree restoring the 1945 Constitution, which the military supported, and which the Pemuda Pancasila was to "back up".

Simon Petrus "Spego" Goni became the organization's chairman in 1961[14] In 1962, he proposed sending Pemuda Pancasila members to fight for "liberation" of Netherlands New Guinea in support of Indonesia's military campaign, Operation Trikora, supplying a fictitious list of names as evidence of the organization's readiness.

[15] Currently Yapto Soerjosoemarno is the leader of this organization,[16] and was one of the semi-official political gangster (preman) groups that supported the New Order military dictatorship of Suharto.

[16] In May 2020, the Bekasi chapter of the Pancasila Youth mailed out letters to prominent local businesspeople asking for Tunjangan Hari Raya in exchange for "peace and security".