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GA-00645 1955-06-01 De Locomotief rel A

Kabinet Ali (The Ali cabinet; PKI mass meeting)

The Ali cabinet: PKI mass meeting with Umi Sardjono

De Locomotief, 1 June 1955: report of a PKI mass meeting in Jakarta where Aidit backs the Ali cabinet and urges peaceful election campaigning. Mrs Umi Sardjono, introduced as a non-party Gerwani member and PKI candidate, says she chose the PKI because it is a choice of being for or against the people. Date: the party's

GA-00655 1955-12-28 De Locomotief rel C

Interpellatie communistische parlementsleden (Interpellation by communist MPs)

Interpellation by communist MPs on foreign capital

De Locomotief, 28 Dec 1955: PKI parliamentarians Sakirman, Tjugito, Suwarti, Sumadi and Utarjo submit a written interpellation on foreign capital, claiming colonial-era extraction and restored monopoly under the 1949 RTC accords, with eight questions to the Burhanuddin government. Suwarti is a woman PKI MP; Gerwani is