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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-01360 1951-08-20 Trouw rel A

Weer tientallen arrestaties in Oost- en West-Java: Te Bandoeng bureaux van "Sobsi" bezet (Dozens more arrests in East and West Java)

Dozens more arrests in East and West Java: Sobsi offices occupied in Bandung

Trouw (20 Aug 1951) on the August 1951 arrests: 26 detained in East Java including journalists, the PKI branch chairman, SOBSI unionists and Gerwis chairwoman Mrs Parjani Ilham; 50 communists arrested in Bandung and SOBSI offices sealed. Attorney General warns of tighter press control; 17 August passed quietly.