Peasants Front of Indonesia ( id, Barisan Tani Indonesia) was a peasant mass organisation connected to the

Communist Party of Indonesia The Communist Party of Indonesia (Indonesian: ''Partai Komunis Indonesia'', PKI) was a communist party in Indonesia during the mid-20th century. It was the largest non-ruling communist party in the world before its violent disbandment in 1965. ...

(PKI). BTI was founded 25 November 1945. The previous peasant organisation of PKI had been the Peasants Union (''Serikat Tani'') formed in 1945. Its final general chairman was

Asmu Asmu, whose birth name was Asmoe Tjiptodarsono, was a leader, theoretician, and chief agricultural expert of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and head of the Communist-affiliated Peasants Front of Indonesia ( id, Barisan Tani Indonesia) in the ...

, the PKI's main agricultural analyst, who was appointed to the position in July 1962. The organization struggled for

land reform Land reform is a form of agrarian reform involving the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership. Land reform may consist of a government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution, generally of agricultural ...

, and was suppressed along with PKI in 1965.

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