Paiso

Paiso (born 1894, date of death unknown) was an Indonesian communist activist and political prisoner who was imprisoned by the Dutch in the Boven-Digoel concentration camp from 1927 to 1932. His son-in-law Manai Sophiaan (1915-2003) was an Indonesian diplomat and politician and his grandson Sophan Sophiaan (1944-2008) was an actor and politician. Biography Little is known of Paiso's early life. He was Javanese and was born in 1894 in the Dutch East Indies; he probably had a basic Dutch-language education.

He worked as a civil servant in Merauke, as a writer for the Assistant Resident and later clerk for the Magistrate. These activities soon led him to be targeted by authorities. The police arrested him at a ceremony marking the death of Sun Yat-sen in March 1925. He was initially sent to the capital Batavia. By the early 1930s, Digoel internees who were well-behaved and considered rehabilitated started to be released in large numbers. Paiso was allowed to return home with a group of 157, including Lie Eng Hok, in March 1932. He returned to Makassar and to politics after his release, although he was careful not to be re-arrested. He was involved in the Permesta rebellion, a cross-party regional movement centered in Makassar, for a time in early 1957 but formally withdrew his participation when it became increasingly anti-communist and anti-Sukarno.

He was still alive at the time of the banning of the PKI in 1965 and the Transition to the New Order, but it is unknown what happened to him.