Yapto Soelistyo Soerjosoemarno is an Indonesian politician who is known as the leader of Pancasila Youth, an organization of quasi-official political gangsters that supported the New Order military dictatorship of Soeharto, while also engaging in other lucrative but non-official criminal acts.
[1] Pancasila Youth played an important role in supporting Soeharto's military coup in 1965: they ran death squads for the Indonesian army, murdering thousands of alleged communists across the province of North Sumatra.
Yapto Soerjosoemarno is known as the leader of Pancasila Youth, an organization of semi-official political gangsters that supported the New Order military dictatorship of Soeharto.
[6][7][8] In February 2025, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) disclosed that it had seized a total of Rp5.6 billion (approximately USD 370,000) from the South Jakarta residence of Yapto .
Additionally, authorities confiscated cash totaling approximately Rp 56 billion (around USD 3.7 million), comprising both Indonesian rupiah and foreign currencies, as well as various documents and electronic evidence.