"Bung" Sukarno, Indonesian political strongman and president (the first president of post-colonial Indonesia) , also appropriated the term for his own 1960s political movement, which he characterized as distinctive from both Soviet Communism and Western liberal (in the 19th-century sense) thinking. Sukarno was a Thomas Jefferson fan and cited him often, but he was in fact a species of socialist.
Practically, Sukarno was the stalking-horse cultivated by the Soviets and the Indonesian Communist Party, the PKI, for an intended revolution that would turn Indonesia from a Soviet-friendly independent country (there was a bloc of these countries in the U. N., which often criticized America) to a full-fledged Soviet client state on a par with Communist Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia.
The CIA went to the Indonesian military establishment and spelled out for them what would happen to them in a PKI-run Indonesia. The result was the overthrow of Sukarno by "the colonels" around Gen. Suharto, and the subsequent disappearance of 800,000 PKI cadre, most of whom wound up floating in the Andaman and Java Seas. It was a very sore defeat for International Communism and one of the reasons the Left hates us.
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