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2 itemsTopic: arrests and detention ✕Organisation: Communist Party of Indonesia ✕Publication: Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra ✕
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GA-01019 1951-08-20 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel A

Bescheiden in beslag genomen (arrestaties te Soerabaja, augustus 1951)

Documents seized (arrests in Surabaya, August 1951)

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (20 Aug 1951, p.1) on the Surabaya arrests of 26 people during the August 1951 round-up: journalists (Go Tjing Hok etc.), SOBSI chair Surono and Sutomo, PKI chair Hutapea, and Mrs Parjani Ilham, chair of the women's organisation Gerwis. Police seized documents and portraits of Mao, Lenin and

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