Tan Ling Djie

"[2] Tan Ling Djie was also a journalist and editor of Sin Tit Po—a radical Chinese Surabaya newspaper led by Liem Koen Hian.

Tan Ling Djie was not the only Chinese left, but there were still Oei Gie Hwat, Tjoa Sik Ien, and Siauw Giok Tjhan.

[3] When the Madiun Affair broke out, Tan Ling Djie was arrested while attending the Railway Workers Union Conference (SBKA) in Yogyakarta.

Following the disastrous Madiun Affair, Tan Ling Djie was named as one of the leaders of the illegal PKI along with Amir Sjariffudin, Maruto Darusman, Abdulmadjid, Setiadjit, and Wikana.

Meanwhile, D. N. Aidit in a paper entitled About Tan Ling Djie-ism which was presented at the 5th National Congress of the Indonesian Communist Party in 1954, which was later published in the Red Star, mentions Tan Ling Djie, "as Secretary General of the Socialist Party concurrently as a leading member of the 'illegal PKI' Politburo, then since August 1948 as Deputy Secretary General of the PKI.