Indonesian Christian Party

Indonesian Christian Party Partai Kristen Indonesia
Abbreviation	Parkindo
Chairman	Wilhelmus Zakaria Johannes (first) Melanchton Siregar (last)
Secretary-General	Maryoto (first) Sabam Sirait (last)
Founded	10 November 1945
Dissolved	11 January 1973
Preceded by	Parki
Merged into	Indonesian Democratic Party
Succeeded by	Indonesian Christian Party 1945 Prosperous Peace Party (claimed)
Headquarters	Djakarta
Newspaper	Kemudi Sinar Harapan
Think tank	Association of Indonesian Christian Intelligence
Student wing	Indonesian Christian Student Movement Indonesian Christian Pupil Movement
Youth wing	Indonesian Christian Youth Movement
Women's wing	Indonesian Christian Women's Association
Armed wing	Arrow Division (during Indonesian National Revolution)
Membership	1,049,475 (1969)
Ideology	Pancasila Christian democracy
Political position	Centre-right
Religion	Protestant
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The Indonesian Christian Party (Indonesian: Partai Kristen Indonesia), better known as Parkindo, was a Christian political party active in Indonesia from 1950 until 1973, when it was merged to make the Indonesian Democratic Party.

Founded by Johannes Leimena and Melanchton Siregar, the former Military Governor of North Sumatra, who was known as a local teacher in Tarutung. Its support was concentrated in Protestant areas of Indonesia. It had considerable influence despite the small number of Christians in Indonesia due to the large numbers of Christians in the civil service, the army and educational establishments and because of the high profile of party leader Johannes Leimena who served in several Indonesian cabinets and as deputy prime minister.^[1] In the 1955 Indonesian legislative election, the party won 2.6% of the vote and eight seats in the People's Representative Council.^[2] However, in the 1971 elections, the last it contested before being merged into the Indonesian Democratic Party, it gained only 1.34% of the vote.^[3][4]