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GA-02472 1960-07-07 rel C licensed

Mourning of Tjimahi Victims Continues (FBIS, 7 Jul 1960)

FBIS, 7 July 1960: Mourning of Tjimahi victims continues

FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (7 Jul 1960): over 18,000 overseas Chinese and Indonesians visited Tjimahi, West Java, to mourn two overseas Chinese women (Yang Mu-mei, Yeh Chin-niang) killed by West Java military authorities during the forced evacuation of Chinese from rural areas. Chinese groups demanded punishment and

GA-02479 1963-05-22 rel C licensed

Envoy Expresses Concern over Java Riots (FBIS, 22 May 1963)

FBIS, 22 May 1963: Envoy expresses concern over Java riots

FBIS-monitored Xinhua item (22 May 1963): Chinese ambassador Yao Chung-ming called on Deputy Foreign Minister Suwito over anti-Chinese disturbances in Indonesia, especially West Java, and welcomed Sukarno's 19 May speech to a meeting of 'Indonesian women' condemning counterrevolutionary disturbances. Suwito pledged ste

GA-00103 1964 Api Kartini rel C licensed

Rasialisme di Negeri Dollar (dan Pameran Buku)

Racism in the Land of Dollars (and a Book Fair)

Api Kartini (1964) article 'Racism in the Land of Dollars' on discrimination against 19 million African Americans (Birmingham bombing, voting restrictions), condemning also the 10 May 1963 anti-Chinese racist riots in West Java. The page continues with a short piece on a May book fair at Gedung Pemuda and encouraging w

GA-01268 1967-05-24 Leeuwarder Courant rel C

Achter het nieuws (Behind the news: Chinese in Indonesia)

Behind the news: Chinese in Indonesia

Leeuwarder Courant, 24 May 1967, p. 1: front-page background column on the persecution of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia after 1965, citing camps in Medan, roundups in Borneo, closed Chinese schools in East Java, and the mass killings of communists and suspects in which Chinese families died. The tone is stereotyping. Ger

GA-01333 1988-04-30 NRC Handelsblad rel C

De Chinees: Op schoolfeesten waren we gelijk, dat was modern (The Chinese: At school parties we were equal, that was modern)

The Chinese: at school parties we were equal, that was modern (Go Gien Tjwan)

Interview with Dr Go Gien Tjwan in NRC Handelsblad's 'Hun Indië' series (30 Apr 1988): memories of peranakan Chinese life in colonial Malang, racial hierarchy, schooling, Chinese revival in the 1930s and student politics at Batavia under Wertheim. Background on Chinese Indonesians; no Gerwani content.

GA-02257 2012-10-01 Tempo rel C licensed

Ironi Gandhi di Medan

Tempo, 1 October 2012: The irony of Gandhi Street in Medan (detention house)

Tempo report (1 Oct 2012) on the Jalan Gandhi detention house in Medan, a former Baperki school used by Kopkamtib for over a decade; Komnas HAM names it a torture site (beatings, confinement in toilets with faeces). Testimony from Astaman Hasibuan (Lekra) and soldier Eddy Sartimin. Gerwani is not mentioned.