SUDARNO, a teacher from Bingkat, Deliserdang regency, North Sumatra province, used all his acumen to persuade parents in the area to send their children to school, but to no avail. "What's the use of school?" the parents argued. "They won't even be allowed to work as plantation laborers, let alone become civil servants." Bingkat was a hotbed of BTI, a farmers' organization affiliated to PKI, and most parents there, including Sudarno's, once belonged to i