Alliances and Rice Diplomacy
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
LARGE trucks belonging to the British military filled the village streets in Cikampek, West Java. In 1946, journalist Rosihan Anwar was on his way back to Jakarta after covering a battle between the forces of the Indonesian Republic and the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration or NICA, in Bekasi. He saw sacks of rice being hauled out of a warehouse and loaded on a truck.
He discovered later that these trucks were headed for the port of Cireb
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