Aliarcham Academy
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A majority of the first cohort originated in [[Java]], the dominant and most populous island in Indonesia. In subsequent years, quotas were established to be more inclusive of Indonesians from other islands, so that only 60% would be from Java. It was more difficult to enter this new type of academy than the party's UNRA schools. Students were expected to be between 25 and 35 years old, to have a high school (SMA) diploma and to be in good health, to already have a solid understanding of Marxist theory, and 5 years experience in revolutionary activity.{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Kam Hing |title=Education and politics in Indonesia, 1945-1965 |date=1995 |publisher=University of Malaya Press |location=Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |isbn=967994056X |page=236}} Students were expected to spend six months full-time in the school and six months doing field work; other tracks were developed for prospective students who had other duties. The university had five departments: philosophy, political economy, the international labor movement, Problems of the Indonesian Revolution, and language and culture. AISA students worked on a number of large research projects relating to agriculture and social relations in the countryside, under the influence of the party's agricultural expert [[Asmu]]. These research projects continued into 1965, often with the support of [[Sukarno]]'s government.{{cite journal |last1=Leksana |first1=Grace T. |title=The Context of Remembering |journal=Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia |date=2023 |pages=47–80 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.2516318.7 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press}} The Academy also had a printing press which published academic and theoretical works. |
A majority of the first cohort originated in [[Java]], the dominant and most populous island in Indonesia. In subsequent years, quotas were established to be more inclusive of Indonesians from other islands, so that only 60% would be from Java. It was more difficult to enter this new type of academy than the party's UNRA schools. Students were expected to be between 25 and 35 years old, to have a high school (SMA) diploma and to be in good health, to already have a solid understanding of Marxist theory, and 5 years experience in revolutionary activity.{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Kam Hing |title=Education and politics in Indonesia, 1945-1965 |date=1995 |publisher=University of Malaya Press |location=Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |isbn=967994056X |page=236}} Students were expected to spend six months full-time in the school and six months doing field work; other tracks were developed for prospective students who had other duties. The university had five departments: philosophy, political economy, the international labor movement, Problems of the Indonesian Revolution, and language and culture. AISA students worked on a number of large research projects relating to agriculture and social relations in the countryside, under the influence of the party's agricultural expert [[Asmu]]. These research projects continued into 1965, often with the support of [[Sukarno]]'s government.{{cite journal |last1=Leksana |first1=Grace T. |title=The Context of Remembering |journal=Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia |date=2023 |pages=47–80 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.2516318.7 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press}} The Academy also had a printing press which published academic and theoretical works. |
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A number of international notables spoke at AISA in its final year, 1965. In March, the American political scientist [[Ruth McVey]], who had recently completed a history of the PKI, lectured there; she may have been the only American ever to do so.{{cite book |last1=Brackman |first1=Arnold C |title=The Communist collapse in Indonesia |date=1969 |publisher=Norton |location=New York |page=184}} And [[Kim Il Sung]] delivered a speech there on April 14 on the subject of "On Socialist Construction in the Democratic |
A number of international notables spoke at AISA in its final year, 1965. In March, the American political scientist [[Ruth McVey]], who had recently completed a history of the PKI, lectured there; she may have been the only American ever to do so.{{cite book |last1=Brackman |first1=Arnold C |title=The Communist collapse in Indonesia |date=1969 |publisher=Norton |location=New York |page=184}} And [[Kim Il Sung]] delivered a speech there on April 14 on the subject of "On Socialist Construction in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."{{cite book |last1=Kiyosaki |first1=Wayne S. |title=North Korea's foreign relations: the politics of accommodation, 1945-75 |date=1976 |publisher=Praeger |location=New York |isbn=0275234908 |page=68}}{{cite book |last1=Suh |first1=Dae-Sook |title=Kim Il Sung: North Korean leader |date=1995 |isbn=0231065736 |page=380 |edition=New}} The following month, AISA was the site of a minor controversy when, at a celebration marking the 45th anniversary of the PKI on 25 May, visiting [[Chinese Communist Party]] secretary [[Peng Zhen]] denounced the revisionism of the USSR, leading to complaints from the dignitaries visiting from the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].{{cite news |title=Verklaring CPSU-delegati in Djakarta. |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010372634:mpeg21:p002 |work=De waarheid |date=8 June 1965 |location=Amsterdam |page=2 |language=nl}} In the speech, Peng Zhen accused the leaders of the USSR of refusing to recognize the importance of struggles outside of Europe and the USA, of selling out Vietnam and East Germany, and of adopting the racial superiority attitudes of imperialist countries.{{cite web |title=Speech at Aliarcham Academy |url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/peng-zhen/1965/05/speech-aliarcham-academy/ch01.htm |website=Marxists.org |access-date=30 October 2025}}{{cite news |title=Chinees hield felle anti-Russische rede. |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:110589455:mpeg21:p013 |work=De Telegraaf |date=5 June 1965 |location=Amsterdam |page=13 |language=nl}} |
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Following the failed September 30 coup d'état, in which the PKI was implicated, AISA was shut down on a temporary basis on 11 October by decree of the Minister of Education Brigadier General Sjarif Thajeb, along with a number of other educational institutions.{{cite book |last1=Brackman |first1=Arnold C |title=The Communist collapse in Indonesia |date=1969 |publisher=Norton |location=New York |page=107}} A number of students were arrested and became political prisoners alongside other members of the PKI and affiliated organizations.{{cite book |editor1-last=Fauzi |editor1-first=M. |title=Pulangkan Mereka: Merangkai Ingatan Penghilangan Paksa di Indonesia |date=2012 |publisher=Lembaga Studi dan Advokasi Masyarakat |location=Jakarta |isbn=9789798981432 |page=68 |language=id |chapter=Penghilangan Paksa dan Kehancuran Organisasi Buruh Perkebunan Sumatra Utara, 1965-1967}} Finally, on 27 May 1966 [[Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Indonesia)|Education Minister]] Mashuri Saleh permanently closed AISA as part of a group of 20 institutions accused (without evidence) of counterrevolutionary behavior and support for the [[30 September Movement]].{{cite journal |title=Continuing Student Agitation in Indonesia |journal=Minerva |date=1966 |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=117 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41821762 |language=en |issn=0026-4695}} |
Following the failed September 30 coup d'état, in which the PKI was implicated, AISA was shut down on a temporary basis on 11 October by decree of the Minister of Education Brigadier General Sjarif Thajeb, along with a number of other educational institutions.{{cite book |last1=Brackman |first1=Arnold C |title=The Communist collapse in Indonesia |date=1969 |publisher=Norton |location=New York |page=107}} A number of students were arrested and became political prisoners alongside other members of the PKI and affiliated organizations.{{cite book |editor1-last=Fauzi |editor1-first=M. |title=Pulangkan Mereka: Merangkai Ingatan Penghilangan Paksa di Indonesia |date=2012 |publisher=Lembaga Studi dan Advokasi Masyarakat |location=Jakarta |isbn=9789798981432 |page=68 |language=id |chapter=Penghilangan Paksa dan Kehancuran Organisasi Buruh Perkebunan Sumatra Utara, 1965-1967}} Finally, on 27 May 1966 [[Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Indonesia)|Education Minister]] Mashuri Saleh permanently closed AISA as part of a group of 20 institutions accused (without evidence) of counterrevolutionary behavior and support for the [[30 September Movement]].{{cite journal |title=Continuing Student Agitation in Indonesia |journal=Minerva |date=1966 |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=117 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41821762 |language=en |issn=0026-4695}} |
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