The police should also seize Google!”Ī parodied picture of communist symbol in the form of a picture of a razor and a comb crossed with a red background (“Indonesian Smooth Party”).(Courtesy of Dewan Kesepian Jakarta Perjuangan/-) On the same day, the Facebook fan page posted a picture of a message that read “There are lots of hammer-and-sickle pictures on Google. On May 9, it posted a picture of an actual hammer and sickle with a message that read: “Anyone who possesses a hammer and a sickle at home should destroy them lest they be accused of being a PKI member.” However, recently the fear of communism has suddenly arisen, especially in the wake of the government’s promise to resolve past human rights cases, including the 1965 mass killings.ĭiscussions on the 1965 tragedy have been disbanded, while books and T-shirts bearing the hammer and sickle logo or any related to any leftist movement have been seized.ĭewan Kesepian Jakarta Perjuangan, or the Jakarta Lonely Council of Struggle, a Facebook fan page that often parodies the famous quotes of well-known figures, has posted various memes related to the hammer and sickle, which have recently gone viral. The now-defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) used a similar but simpler logo, until the party was decimated by the military in 1965, marked by the purge of party members, their relatives and sympathizers nationwide. Evgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin won with his design of a hammer and a sickle, which represented the worker-peasant alliance of the socialist movement. Most of the logos have been used in jokes spread through various memes on social media.Īlmost a century ago, leftist duo Vladimir Lenin and Anatoly Lunacharsky held a competition to create the first state emblem of the Soviet Union. Logos bearing the hammer and sickle, recognized as a communist symbol worldwide, have suddenly become popular in Indonesia.
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