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Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesia77party, some ex-Masyumi proponents attempted to rehabilitatetheir party. They had enough reasons to do so. Firstly, althoughMasyumi had been banned, it was not categorized as aforbidden party, but merely a victim of the application of theguided democracy system and the cunning attitude of PKIleaders. Secondly, Masyumi was the first party to openly opposeSoekarno and demand the banning of the PKI, long before thePKI%u2019s coup de etat in 1965, when all factions %u2014which later oncommitted themselves to be anti-Soekarno and anticommunism%u2014 did not yet possess the moral courage to firmlyand openly insist on their principles.However, their efforts to rehabilitate Masyumi failed. Thenew government, which was dominated by the military andwanted to build a new type of Indonesian political system, wereworried that Masyumi would be rehabilitated. Natsir wasindeed widely quoted as being the strongest candidate ofMasyumi, while he himself felt reluctant to get reinvolved inthe political arena. Partai Muslimin Indonesia (Parmusi - TheIndonesian Muslim Party) was finally created to accommodateMuslim political aspirations, which had yet to be accommodatedin the available Islamic political parties. Although using thesymbol of the crescent-star, the ex-Masyumi symbol, this partywas not able to regain the old Masyumi image. At the sametime, the Indonesian political format changed. As militaryintervention in the political atmosphere was intensifyingthrough the application of the concept of the military%u2019s %u201cdoublefunction%u201d, the role of Indonesian party politics becamemarginalized.Natsir, who was wise enough to understand the politicalchanges, did not have to be bothered with building political