North Kalimantan Communist Party

North Kalimantan Communist Party
Chinese name
  • 北加里曼丹共產黨
  • Běi Jiālǐmàndān Gòngchǎndǎng
Malay nameParti Komunis Kalimantan Utara
AbbreviationNKCP
ChairpersonWen Ming Chyuan
Founded
  • 19 September 1965 (de facto)[1]
  • 19 September 1971 (de jure)
Dissolved17 October 1990
Youth wingSarawak Advance Youths' Association (SAYA)[2]
Paramilitary wing
  • Sarawak People's Guerilla Force (SPGF)[3]
  • North Kalimantan People's Army (NKPA/Paraku)[4]
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
ColoursRed
Party flag

The North Kalimantan Communist Party (abbr. NKCP) was a Maoist communist party based in the Malaysian state of Sarawak in northern Borneo.[5] It was formally founded on 19 September 1971. Before that, the group had been operating under the name Sarawak People's Guerrillas. The chairman of the NKCP was Wen Ming Chyuan and the party enjoyed close links with the People's Republic of China.[3][2] The NKCP's membership was predominantly ethnically Chinese. The two military formations of the NKCP were the Sarawak People's Guerilla Force (SPGF) or Pasukan Gerilya Rakyat Sarawak (PGRS), and the North Kalimantan People's Army (NKPA) or the Pasukan Rakyat Kalimantan Utara (PARAKU).[2] The NKCP participated in the Sarawak Communist Insurgency (1962–1990).[4] On 17 October 1990, the North Kalimantan Communist Party signed a peace agreement with the Sarawak state government, formally ending the Sarawak Communist Insurgency.[2]

  1. ^ a b Hara 2005.
  2. ^ a b c d Hara 2005, pp. 489–513
  3. ^ a b Fong 2005, pp. 183–192
  4. ^ a b Chan & Wong 2011
  5. ^ Cheah Boon Kheng2009, pp. 132–52

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