From Jail to Jail

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Tan Malaka. From Jail to Jail

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FROM JAIL TO JAIL

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Foreign scholars have, until recently, tended to echo this neglect and/or distortion of Tan Malaka’s role, relying for their information all too often on the “winners” in the struggle between perjuangan and diplomasi. The first and still the standard work on the Indonesian revolution, George McT. Kahin’s Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia (1952), epitomizes this trend. Kahin himself recognized the bias in his 1970 preface:

the charge has been made, particularly by Indonesians, that I have shown a partiality for the viewpoints of certain Indonesian groups—especially Soetan Sjahrir’s Indonesian Socialist Party and Mohammad Natsir’s wing of the Masjumi—and a lack of objectivity in my treatment of their adversaries, particularly Tan Malaka and his followers. Undoubtedly some of my views were influenced both by the personal friendships I developed with leaders of the Indonesian Socialist and Masjumi parties and by my lack of access to some other leaders. During much of my stay in the revolutionary capital, Tan Malaka as well as noncommunist leaders of his political coalition were in jail and unavailable to me . . .54

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