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Njoto was a top national leader of the
Communist Party of IndonesiaThe Communist Party of Indonesia was the largest non-ruling communist party in the world prior to being crushed in 1965 and banned the following year.-Forerunners:...
(PKI). He was shot dead by around 6 November 1965 in
the anti-Communist purgeThe Indonesian killings of 1965–1966 were an anti-communist purge following a failed coup in Indonesia. The most widely accepted estimates are that over half a million people were killed...
during the Transition to the New Order.