GO GIEN TJWAN:
Yap was not One to Seek the Middle Road

June 4, 2013

His memory was as sharp as ever, despite his advancing years. Go Gien Tjwan was able to remember every moment he worked alongside Yap Thiam Hien in the Indonesian Citizenship Consultative Board (Baperki), an organization the government had dubbed as ,leftist,, which was set up in March 1954. This senior lecturer of modern Asian history at Amsterdam University had once served as an official at the Baperki Foundation. The Baperki challenged racial

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