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76Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesiaconsequences for Masyumi, since Natsir himself had not yetgiven up his mandate as the head of Masyumi. Pro and contraviews about his attitude emerged in the Masyumi congress in1959 in Yogyakarta. Most participants were basically able tounderstand Natsir%u2019s principles in handling Soekarno%u2019s attitudes.Nevertheless, the involvement of Natsir, Sjafruddin andBoerhanuddin in PRRI, although formally they were no longerMasyumi leaders, was manipulated by Soekarno as one of thereasons to ban Masyumi in 1960, aside from the main reasonthat Masyumi was construed as a %u201ccontra-revolutionary party%u201d.Soekarno had indeed banned Masyumi, but he did not fulfillall the requirements of the banning procedure. Therefore,according to a legal view, Masyumi could not be categorizedas %u201ca forbidden party%u201d as experienced by the PKI after itsbanning in 1966.Natsir launched a guerrilla movement in the Sumatranjungle to fight against the central government, which wasregarded as dictatorial and pro-communist, for at least threeyears. Extensive military attacks against PRRI, which thenchanged its name to Republik Persatuan Indonesia, eventuallyweakened the position of the dissidents. Finally, Natsir and hiscollaborators %u201cgave up%u201d after the central government offered%u201cpublic amnesty%u201d to the dissidents. Nevertheless, shortly afterhe arrived in Jakarta, he was detained and %u201cquarantined%u201d inBatu, Malang (East Java), charged with various subversivepractices that were never proven in the courts. He was onlyreleased in 1967, after Soekarno stepped down from his throneand was replaced by the New Order government led by GeneralSoeharto.After the fall of Soekarno and the banning of the communist