Ibnu Parna (died 1965) was an Indonesian communist politician and leader of the Acoma Party (Partai Acoma),Alexander, Robert J. International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. p. 534 and trade unionist.International Labor Directory and Handbook. New York, N.Y.: F. A. Praeger, 1950s. p. 777
Involved in the anti-colonial struggle in Indonesia as a youth leader in Semarang, Parna was elected an Indonesian Parliament member for the Acoma Party in 1955. Subsequently harassed by Indonesia's authoritarian government, Parna was arrested and killed by Indonesia's authorities, together with hundreds of thousands of other leftists, in the killings of 1965-66.
Biography Ibnu Parna took active part in the anti-colonial struggle as a youth leader in Semarang.Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. Java in a Time of Revolution; Occupation and Resistance, 1944-1946. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972. p. 146 In November 1945 he became vice chairman of Pesindo (Indonesian Socialist Youth) representing Angkatan Muda Republik Indonesia ('Young Force of the Republic of Indonesia'), the main youth movement from Semarang.Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. Java in a Time of Revolution; Occupation and Resistance, 1944-1946. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972. pp. 256, 258 His elder brother, Krissubanu, had also been a youth leader.Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. Java in a Time of Revolution; Occupation and Resistance, 1944-1946. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972. p. 425
In early 1946 Ibnu Parna was included, representing Pesindo, in the subcommittee of Persatuan Perdjuangan. However, on March 6, 1946, the Pesindo leadership decided to withdraw Ibnu Parna's position as the Pesindo representative in the PP subcommittee.Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. Java in a Time of Revolution; Occupation and Resistance, 1944-1946. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972. pp. 293, 318
Parna emerged as the leader of the Young Communist Force (Angkatan Comunis Muda), a youth movement associated with the Revolutionary People's Movement of Tan Malaka.Malaka, Tan, and Helen Jarvis. From Jail to Jail. Monographs in international studies, no. 83. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1991. p. cxliii Acoma, founded in June 1946, later evolved into the Acoma Party.Intercontinental press, Volume 5Gunn, Geoffrey C. New World Hegemony in the Malay World. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2000. pp. 48-49
In the 1955 parliamentary election, Ibnu Parna was elected as a Member of Parliament. He was the sole Acoma Party candidate to win a seat.Feith, Herbert. The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia. An Equinox classic Indonesia book. Jakarta [u.a.]: Equinox, 2007. p. 435 Around this period, Ibnu Parna served as organizing secretary of the trade union centre SOBRI.United States. Directory of World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). 1955. p. 29
In 1956 Ibnu Parna took part in the world congress of the Trotskyist International Secretariat of the Fourth International.
In February 1959 Ibnu Parna was arrested for having published a pamphlet which denounced the rule of General Nasution, his parliamentary immunity notwithstanding."Report from Indonesia". International Socialist Review Vol. 20, No. 4 (Fall 1959), p. 101. Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
The Acoma Party was banned in 1965.Gunn, Geoffrey C. New World Hegemony in the Malay World. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2000. p. 58 Ibnu Parna was arrested and killed in the mass killings of 1965.
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