Soeraedi Tahsin

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 ambassador of Indonesia to Mali by President Sukarno.[4][2] After a military takeover in 1965 and the massacres of 1965-66, 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] Following his departure, the embassy in Mali was closed and Indonesia's embassy in Guinea was accredited to Mali. Imrad Idris was named as the ambassador concurrently accredited to Mali to replace Soeraedi Tahsin.[11]

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

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c d De Volkskrant. Indië is in Nederland nog steeds niet goed verteerd
  4. ^ a b 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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