From Idol to Victim
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Liem Koen Hian was the founder of the Indonesian Chinese Party during Dutch colonial times. Ironically this Indonesian nationalist passed away as a foreigner.
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A.R. Baswedan got to know Liem Koen Hian in 1932, when both of them attended a soccer game in Surabaya. Liem was the chief editor of Sin Tit Po, a pro-Indonesia Chinese newspaper. Liem offered Baswedan a job as an editor. For Baswedan it was a blessing that he always felt grateful for, as he wrote in a note in 1939.
“Even if I can be employed as a volunteer, with no salary at all, I will be very happy to accept it, as long as I could sit next
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