Claim: Samanhudi (who has been active in the party since 1992) founded a union that consists of batik indigenes in West and Central Java and remained as a party coordinator until 2017.
Evidence: Since 1920, Samanhudi became inactive in the party. Hadji Samanhudi (1868 – 28 December 1956) was the founder of Sarekat Dagang Islam, an organization in Indonesia that previously served as an association for batik traders in Surakarta, and later broadened its scope to nationalist political issues.