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GA-01011 1949-11-11 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel A

Dienstreis! (Lot Salawati en de overval bij Paloppo)

Official trip! (Lot Salawati and the Paloppo raid)

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra, reprint from Java-bode (11 Nov 1949, p.3) 'Dienstreis!': after the Palopo raid and kidnapping, police searched the home of Mrs Lot Salawati, a municipal councillor and 'very well-known extreme-left lady', who had borrowed the mayor's car claiming official business. Five students from a Maka

GA-01285 1949-12-03 Nieuwe Courant rel A

Lot Salawati (The lot of Salawati)

The lot of Salawati

Nieuwe Courant, 3 December 1949: commentary profiling 'Lot Salawati' (Salawati Daud) as 'very left and very revolutionary', leader of the Masamba gang. It speculates that she was humiliated at the Indonesian Women's Congress in Yogyakarta and then at home in Makassar, and sought rehabilitation through violence; it also