exclude people disloyal to Aidit. Hutapea was also the commissioner of the PKI in East Java during this time. In 1951 police made a number of raids of houses of Communists and other leftists in East Java, which Hutapea had called a "politics of demoralization" being waged against them by the government. Then, in August 1951 there were mass arrests of leftists of various parties in the region, Hutapea was among them, along with editors of Trompet Masjarakat, Republik and editors of a number of Chinese Indonesian papers. Aidit and other leaders went into hiding, where many of them stayed until 1952. The government accused the arrestees of plotting a coup d'état. These prisoners were interned in a concentration camp in Kediri, where they complained about poor quality food, and no access to medicine or reading materials. The Dutch communist party newspaper De Waarheid claimed that Hutapea himself was instrumental in organizing the prisoners into various sports and education committees, and to campaign for better treatment. Hutapea had various other duties in the party before and after his imprisonment. He was a member of the politbureau of the communist party, he was an editor of their theoretical magazine Bintang Merah (Indonesian: Red Star), and he was director of the Aliarcham Academy, a party training school, in Jakarta. In 1959 Hutapea accompanied Aidit and other party members to Moscow to attend the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In his writings, Hutapea showed himself to be among the most hardline members of the party leadership. In a 1960 article in Bintang Merah, the party's magazine of theory, he condemned revisionists in the Second International who had proposed a non-revolutionary road to power. After 1965 After the failed 30 September Movement, in which the PKI was implicated, many of the party leadership were arrested or killed. Aliarcham Academy, which Hutapea was director of, was closed by order of Suharto. Hutapea managed to escape capture for several years. In early 1967 a number of the surviving party notables made a plan to rebuild the party in the South Blitar area of East Java, which they judged to be suitable. Among those who left from Jakarta to South Blitar were Hutapea, Rewang, Tjugito, Iskandar Subekti, Marjoko and Katno. In 1967 Hutapea became head of a new Central Committee based there. This committee stockpiled weapons and attempted to build an independent