Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has warned Muslims against the resurgence of the Indonesian Communist Party, disbanded by the New Order government in 1966.

Chairman of the MUI's fatwa council, Maruf Amin, said that an indication of the return of the PKI was the proposal for the government to apologize for blaming the 1965 coup attempt on the communist party.

"It's obvious. Many have called for the government to consider the 1965 incident as a gross violation of human rights and that the government should apologize for that," Maruf said as quoted by tribunnews.com.

He also warned that communism as an ideology is still alive and had a large number of followers. "Not only do we need to detect it, we must make efforts to prevent the return of the PKI," he said.

Last year, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) declared in its findings that the systematic prosecution of alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) after the failed 1965 coup was a gross human rights violation.