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GA-01023 1951-09-15 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel B

Werken van Marx geconfisqueerd (vraag van Suwarti in het parlement)

Works of Marx confiscated (question by Suwarti in parliament)

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (15 Sep 1951, p.2): communist MP Suwarti questions the government on the recent confiscation of Karl Marx's books, asking on which legal article the measure rests after the attorney general's spokesman claimed it was lawful. Context for the 1951 anti-communist round-up; identification of Suw

GA-00944 1976-11-06 De Waarheid rel B

Het antwoord van Suharto (Lekra-kunstenaars vervolgd)

Suharto's answer (Lekra artists persecuted)

De Waarheid, 6 Nov 1976, p. 2: fragment on Suharto's destruction of the Lekra cultural movement in 1965 (book burnings, banned art), with a long list of murdered or imprisoned artists, including Pramoedya, Henk Ngantung, Bujung Saleh and writer Sugiarti Siswadi, noted as sentenced to 12 years (OCR garbled). Also an unr