Jakarta – Chairman of the executive board of the Corps of Indonesian Muslim Students Alumni (KAHMI), Fuad Bawazier, warns of resurgent communism.

"... the communists are making a comeback in Indonesia and they have infiltrated and made use of protest demonstrations to create anarchy," Fuad said in a speech at the opening of the regional meeting of the Aceh branch of KAHMI in Banda Aceh Sunday.

The former finance minister said he suspected young communist followers were involved in recent violence in East Java. "I'm convinced that NU members, especially those hailing from East Java, are honorable people who would not have committed violent acts. I'm convinced that the anarchy was created by infiltrators who are young communist followers," Fuad said as quoted by Antara.

He added that communist followers usually hide behind the cloak of democracy while in reality they are anti-democracy. "But the most important thing is they cannot flourish in Indonesia because there is a law [against their existence], the 1966 Decree of the People's Consultative Assembly," said Fuad.

"KAHMI is against the revocation of the decree," said Fuad, adding that many groups in the community are also against the revocation of the decree. President Abdurrahman Wahid has repeatedly called for the revocation of the decree but has so far failed to gather enough support for the move.

Fuad said although communism failed in many countries, Indonesia is a different case. "Unlike in other countries, the communists never really held power in Indonesia, and this explains their desire to seize power, especially since they were defeated by prodemocracy groups," he said.