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GA-01080 1951-08-20 Het Vaderland rel A

Weer talrijke arrestaties in Indonesië

Again numerous arrests in Indonesia

Het Vaderland front-page report (20 Aug 1951) on the escalating arrests of communists across Indonesia: 26 in East Java including Java Post editor Go Tjing Hok, the local PKI chair and SOBSI leaders, and Mrs Parjani Ilham, chair of the women's organisation 'Gerwis'; 50 in Bandung with SOBSI offices sealed; 175 in East

GA-00824 1951-08-31 De Waarheid rel B

De arrestaties in Indonesië: oproep van de PKI tegen fascisme te strijden

The arrests in Indonesia: PKI calls for struggle against fascism

De Waarheid, 31 Aug 1951, p. 3: near-verbatim PKI Central Committee statement on the Sukiman government's August 1951 mass arrests, calling them a drift to fascism and a staged 'coup' pretext. It lists Gerwis among organisations whose members were arrested or searched, demands release of all detainees and urges an anti

GA-01416 1952-02-16 Harian Rakjat rel A

Nj. Mudigdio (PKI) di DPR tentang penangkapan razzia Agustus, Harian Rakjat 16 Februari 1952

Mrs Mudigdio (PKI) in parliament on the August raid arrests (Harian Rakjat, 16 February 1952)

Harian Rakjat, 16 Feb 1952, front page continued p.4: parliamentary debate on the government's account of the August 1951 razzia (mass arrests of leftists). Nyonya Mudigdio (PKI) is reported proposing that the DPR form a committee to investigate the arrests; Sakirman (PKI) notes most victims were PKI members. A detaine