Soeraedi Tahsin (born July 6 in Pandeglang, died February 25, 2003 in Amsterdam), also known as Eddie Soeraedi, was an Indonesian journalist and diplomat.[1][2] He was the founding editor of the publication Berita Indonesia ('Indonesian News'), the first republican newspaper in Batavia.[1][3]

Biography

Tahsin served as the editor-in-chief of Bintang Timur, the daily newspaper of the Indonesian Party (Partindo).[4][5][6] As of 1958 he was the general secretary of the Union of Indonesian Journalists (PWI).[7][8]

In 1964 he was named as ambassador of Indonesia to Mali by president Sukarno.[4][2] After the military takeover in 1965 and the massacres of 1965-66, S. Tahsin did not return to Indonesia. Instead he went into exile in China.[9][10] The Indonesian government withdrew his citizenship soon after the coup, leaving him stranded in Beijing.[3] In February 1970 Imris Idris was named as the new Indonesian ambassador to Mali as replacement of Tahsin.[11]

He later moved to the Netherlands, entering the country illegally in 1977.[3][12] He taught Indonesian language at the Volksuniversiteit and started a publishing/bookstore in Amsterdam 1981, named Manus Amici.[3] E.S.Tahsin died in Amsterdam in 2003.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 F. X. Kusworo; J. B. Margantoro; Ronnie S. Viko (1994). Di balik tugas kuli-tinta. Sebelas Maret University Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-979-498-076-7.
  2. 1 2 3 David T. Hill (21 January 2010). Journalism and Politics in Indonesia: A Critical Biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922-2004) as Editor and Author. Routledge. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-135-16914-5.
  3. 1 2 3 4 De Volkskrant. Indië is in Nederland nog steeds niet goed verteerd
  4. 1 2 Greg Poulgrain (1998). The Genesis of Konfrontasi: Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, 1945-1965. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 266, 277. ISBN 978-1-85065-513-8.
  5. ↑ E. Stuart Kirby (1962). Contemporary China. Hong Kong University Press. p. 167.
  6. ↑ Political Handbook of the World. McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1959. p. 110.
  7. ↑ Foreign Languages Publishing House (Hanoi) (1960). Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945-1960: impressions of foreigners. Foreign Languages Pub. House.
  8. ↑ Publications de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient, Vol. 94-95. Imprimerie Nationale. 1974. p. 42.
  9. ↑ Schweizer Monatshefte, vol. 55. Gesellschaft Schweizer Monatshefte. 1975. p. 688.
  10. ↑ Richard Felix Staar; Milorad M. Drachkovitch; Lewis H. Gann (1970). Yearbook on International Communist Affairs. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs series. Hoover Institution Press. p. 591.
  11. ↑ Bulletin de l'Afrique noire, eds. 581–605. Ediafric. 1970. p. 1187.
  12. ↑ Indonesia Reports, eds. 47–59. Indonesia Publications. 1990. p. 26.
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