Muhammad Hatta Lukman (26 February 1920 – 1965) was an
Indonesian
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communist politician
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, who served as the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), and a member of the
People's Representative Council from 1956 until 1959. He was executed following the
1965 crackdown on the PKI.
Lukman's father was a ''kiai'', a
Muslim religious scholar who was active in Sarekat Rakyat (People's Association), a
Communist breakaway group from the Sarekat Islam. After the failed 1926 communist uprising against the
Dutch colonial government, Lukman's father was imprisoned and in 1929 was exiled to the
Boven Digul
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detention camp,
West Papua. His family went with him, and Lukman grew up among political prisoners. In 1938 Lukman returned to his home town of
Tegal
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and worked as a bus conductor until the 1942
Japanese invasion. He joined the then illegal
Indonesian Communist Party
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in 1943, at the same time as future leader
D. N. Aidit.
[Mortimer (1974)]
In 1951, together with Aidit,
Njoto and
Sudisman, he participated in the takeover of the PKI leadership, a move which was to see the resurgence of the party.
By 1965, he was a member of the party central committee and as deputy speaker of the
Provisional house of Representatives, a member of President
Sukarno's
cabinet.
[Simanjuntak (2003)] As a leading PKI member, Lukman was arrested following the 1965 coup attempt of the
30 September Movement
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, which was officially blamed on the Communist Party. After a trial, Lukman was secretly executed in late 1965 during the
anti-communist purge of 1965/66.
[Roosa (2007)]
References
Citations
Sources
* Mortimer, Rex (1974) ''Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno: Ideology and Politics, 1959–1965'', Cornell University Press,
* Roosa, John (2007) ''Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement & Suharto's Coup D'État in Indonesia'', University of Wisconsin Press.
* Simanjuntak, P.H.H (2003) ''Kabinet-Kabinet Republik Indonesia: Dari Awal Kemerdekaan Sampai Reformasi (Cabinets of the Republic of Indonesia: From the Start of Independence to the Reform Era'', Penerbit Djambatan, Jakarta,
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Executed Indonesian people
20th-century executions by Indonesia
Year of birth uncertain
Communist Party of Indonesia politicians
1965 deaths
1920 births
Indonesian newspaper editors
Boven-Digoel concentration camp detainees
Executed communists
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