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Front page of Bintang Merah from November 7th 1946
Bintang Merah (Indonesian language: 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. It described itself as a magazine of Marxist-Leninist politics and theory.
The magazine began publication at the end of the Second World War with the departure of Japanese forces from the Indonesia. However, it was banned in 1948 after the Madiun Affair along with other communist newspapers such as Buruh, Revolusioner, and Suara Ibu Kota.[1] Then in August 1950, the magazine started publishing again twice per month.[2] The new editorial staff were D. N. Aidit, Lukman, Njoto and Peris Pardede. It claimed to have a circulation of 10,000 by the end of 1950 but gradually declined to under 8,000 in 1953. It was surpassed in circulation by another party paper, Harian Rakjat, which went from 2,000 circulation in 1951 to 15,000 in 1953.[3]
Bintang Merah ceased publication in 1965 with the banning of the Communist Party of Indonesia.
References
^ Musso and the Madiun Movement, Budi Setyarso et al., Tempo: 2013.
^ Hindley, Donald. The Communist Party of Indonesia: 1951-1963. Univ of California Press, 1966.
^ Hindley, Donald. The Communist Party of Indonesia: 1951-1963. Univ of California Press, 1966.
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