VIVAnews - The so-called social revolution broke out in East Sumatra on 3 March 1946 when communist-led mobs revolted against the sultans and the nobility in the province.
The mobs, backed by the members of the United Struggle movement, the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), and the Indonesian National Party (PNI), accused the local nobles of plotting with the British and the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration (NICA) to re-establish the Dutch authority in Indonesia.
In the days that followed, the mobs swarmed the palaces in East Sumatra, arrested the sultans and the nobility, and seized their treasury.
They also demanded the Indonesian government to abolish the special autonomous status enjoyed by the sultanates in East Sumatra since late 1945, and dismiss aristocrat officials from their positions within the government.
Hundreds of dignitaries of East Sumatra were put in prison by the communist and thousands others were stripped of their property. Some of them, including Tengku Amir Hamzah, a poet and a son-in-law of the Sultan of Langkat, were beheaded by the mobs on 20 March 1946.
After weeks of anarchy, in late March 1946, the military took over the government of East Sumatra. Within days, the army managed to put down the anarchy, released the remaining nobles from prison, and returned some of their property to them.
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