Conversation

Notices

Embed this notice
Daniel Carkner🥀 (carkner@historians.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 12:47:57 JST Daniel Carkner🥀

Finally finished my latest article for #WikipediaAsianMonth, though since it's now December in Asia I think I missed the deadline to enter it in the contest.🥺
This mass arrest episode kept coming up in my last few biographies, and actually it ties into about 8 other biographies I've written on #Wikipedia over the years about Indonesian #communist figures. Actually almost any communist they could get their hands on in 1951 was detained, including my friend's grandfather.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_mass_arrests_in_Indonesia
In conversation about 2 months ago from historians.social permalink
Attachments
1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org
  
  1951 mass arrests in Indonesia
  
  Mass arrests, primarily of communists and leftists, were carried out in Java and Sumatra in August and September 1951. Sometimes called the August Raid, this was a move by the Indonesian government, led by the Soekiman Cabinet, to prevent a rumoured coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and its allies. The total number of detainees started with several hundred in early August and ended up as roughly 15,000 across Indonesia by October. Many were released without charge within days or months, but some remained in detention until the Wilopo Cabinet took power in 1952. Background The coalition in power at the time of the mass arrests was the short-lived Soekiman Cabinet, which was mainly supported mainly by factions of the Indonesian National Party and the Masyumi Party. It was faced by strikes and instability in the summer of 1951, violent rural banditry, internal political divisions, and tensions over the negotiations of the Treaty of San Francisco which would mean peace between Indonesia and Japan. In June the Justice Minister Mohammad Yamin also unexpectedly pardoned 950 political prisoners, including Chairul Saleh and...
- Embed this notice
  Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 12:47:57 JST Adrianna Tan
  in reply to
  
  @carkner our world overlaps a little bit on this
  I wrote: https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/forgotten-women-warriors-malayan-communist-party
  In conversation about 2 months ago permalink
  Attachments
  1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.iias.asia
    
    The forgotten women warriors of the Malayan Communist Party | IIAS

Public

Conversation

Notices

Feeds