Questions about the shooting of arrested persons (Surade case)
Aneta report in De Vrije Pers (2 Jul 1951): MP Mrs. Moedigdo (Mudigdio) put written questions to the government about the public beating to death of the Surade village head (Sukabumi) without trial, and the death of a detained police mantri in Banyuwangi after violence. She asked about prosecution, prevention and suppo
Questions about the shooting of arrested persons (page-image version)
Aneta report in De Vrije Pers (2 Jul 1951): MP Mrs. Moedigdo (Mudigdio) put written questions to the government about the public beating to death of the Surade village head (Sukabumi) without trial, and the death of a detained police mantri in Banyuwangi after violence. She asked about prosecution, prevention and suppo
Execution
Java-Bode, 2 Jul 1951, p. 3: details of the Suara Rakjat report that a Sukabumi village head was beaten to death with a rifle butt in a public 'execution' without trial. Mrs Mudigdo asks what the government will do to prevent repeats, prosecute those responsible and support the victim's kin.
Gone to the farmer: communists in the Indonesian countryside
Friese Koerier travel/feature piece (12 Mar 1964, p.11) on how Indonesian communists won rural support via relief after Darul Islam raids, farming advice, theatre, wayang and badminton. It states the communists founded nominally non-communist organisations: BTI, Gerwani ('the Indonesian women's movement') and Pemuda Ra
World president Mrs Van Beekhoff is home again (ACWW)
Friese Koerier profile (28 Oct 1965, p.15) of Geerda van Beekhoff-van Selms, outgoing world president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), recounting her travels, congresses and the non-political, no-communist-members policy of ACWW. Indonesian women appear only as donors of a Yogyakarta silver dish. No