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GA-00611 1950-08-15 De Locomotief rel B

'Zij mochten niet meedoen: 17 Augustus is een rouwdag' (17 August is a day of mourning)

'They were not allowed to take part': 17 August is a day of mourning

De Locomotief, 15 Aug 1950 (Aneta): SOBSI, Rukun Tani, a youth front, PRRI and the women's organisation GERWIS form a committee to commemorate the 'People's Proclamation of 17 August 1945', declaring 17 August 1950 a day of mourning because the RTC-style unitary state buries the 1945 republic. They protest the ban on b

GA-01015 1950-08-15 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel B

SOBSI beschouwt 17 Augustus als 'rouwdag' voor het volk: 'Eenheidsstaat à la R.T.C.'

SOBSI regards 17 August as a 'day of mourning': 'unitary state a la RTC'

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (15 Aug 1950, p.2): organisations including SOBSI, Rukun Tani Indonesia, Front Nasional Pemuda, PRRI and the women's organisation Gerwis formed a counter-committee, Panitya Peringatan Proklamasi Rakjat 17 Agustus 1945, after the government excluded parties from its commemoration committee. T