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Werken van Marx geconfisqueerd (vraag van Suwarti in het parlement)

Works of Marx confiscated (question by Suwarti in parliament)

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Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (15 Sep 1951, p.2): communist MP Suwarti questions the government on the recent confiscation of Karl Marx's books, asking on which legal article the measure rests after the attorney general's spokesman claimed it was lawful. Context for the 1951 anti-communist round-up; identification of Suwarti with a specific Gerwani/Gerwis figure is unconfirmed.

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra (15 Sep 1951, hlm. 2): anggota parlemen komunis Suwarti mengajukan pertanyaan kepada pemerintah soal penyitaan buku Karl Marx, menanyakan pasal hukum yang mendasarinya setelah juru bicara jaksa agung menyebutnya sah. Konteks razia anti-komunis 1951; identifikasi Suwarti dengan tokoh Gerwani/Gerwis tertentu belum pasti.

“Communist MP Suwarti asked the government on which legal article the confiscation of Marx's books rests (p. 2).”

People

SuwartiKarl Marx

Organisations

Indonesian parliament (DPR)Communist Party of IndonesiaProsecutor-General (Netherlands Indies/Indonesia)

Places

Indonesia

Topics

elections and parliamentarrests and detentionPKIpropaganda and media

Tags

parliamentary questionbook banning

Details

Date
1951-09-15
Creator
Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra
Publication
Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page (text transcription/OCR))
Language
Dutch
Perspective
Western mainstream press
Source role
primary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1950–1954
Source archive
Delpher (KB, Netherlands) · source link
Access
open access (Delpher) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)/Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra (1951-09-15) - WERKEN VAN MARK GECONFISKEERD [Delpher ddd-010476038-a0034].txt
OCR / text
Fair (0.879) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)
Summary basis
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