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Renmin Ribao, 5 September 1963: Aidit, 'Beberapa masalah revolusi Indonesia dan PKI' (印度尼西亚革命的若干问题和印度尼西亚共产党)

Aidit, 'Some problems of the Indonesian revolution and the PKI' (Beijing report, snippet)

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Snippet-only Renmin Ribao extract (5 Sept 1963, p. 3) from D.N. Aidit's 4 September Beijing report on the Indonesian revolution and PKI. It states PKI membership rose from 4.6 to 6.3 million in about a year, with Pemuda Rakyat and Gerwani at 1.5 million members each; the snippet is truncated.

Cuplikan Renmin Ribao (5 September 1963, hlm. 3) dari laporan D.N. Aidit di Beijing pada 4 September tentang revolusi Indonesia dan PKI. Disebut anggota PKI naik dari 4,6 menjadi 6,3 juta dalam sekitar setahun; Pemuda Rakyat dan Gerwani masing-masing 1,5 juta anggota. Cuplikan terpotong.

“The People's Youth has 1.5 million members and the Indonesian Women's Movement Association [Gerwani] has 1.5 million members (p. 3, snippet).”

People

D.N. Aidit

Organisations

Communist Party of IndonesiaPeople's YouthIndonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)

Places

BeijingIndonesia

Topics

PKIGerwani organisationChinapropaganda and media

Tags

speech textmembership figuressnippet onlyindependence revolution

Details

Date
1963-09-05
Creator
Renmin Ribao
Publication
Renmin Ribao
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page)
Language
Chinese
Perspective
Socialist-bloc/solidarity press
Source role
primary
Country
China
Period
1960–1965
Source archive
People's Daily 人民日报图文数据库 (Columbia proxy) · source link
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library-licensed (Columbia University Libraries); personal research copy Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Renmin Ribao (1950-1966) - articles on Gerwani and Indonesian women (People's Daily database)/Renmin Ribao (1963-09-05) - 印度尼西亚革命的若干问题和印度尼西亚共产党 印度尼西亚共产党主席迪·努·艾 (Aidit lecture in Beijing on Indonesian revolution; Gerwani 1.5 million members).pdf
OCR / text
Poor (0.434) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Renmin Ribao (1950-1966) - articles on Gerwani and Indonesian women (People's Daily database)
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full text read; snippet only

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