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The meaning of communism discourse in Indonesia is closely related to events involving the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). The meaning of communism ideology has become a symbolic arena of struggle. Whether PKI as a victim or perpetrator of the massacre became a debate that continues to this day. This assumption has implications for the meaning of "communism as an ideology" in Indonesia. Thus, this day communism is still a scourge for some people become an existing reality. Even though Suharto era had ended, any efforts to preserve anti-communist discourse became a phenomenon in Indonesia. This research focused on how Matan Muhammadiyah East Java Magazine maintained anti-communist discourse. This was done to get the power to produce and showed the world view that had been the most recognized, the most considered true, and had legitimacy. The symbolic preservation efforts on anti-communist discourse carried out with a meconaisance strategy, i.e. euphemization, sensing, and implicature. In addition, Matan presented an old well narration as an effort to preserve the discourse. Through the critical discourse analysis method, this study showed that Muhammadiyah was still an active Islamic organization in reproducing anti-communist discourse in Indonesia.