Cultuur Procenteen

March 13, 2008

Alkisah, setelah susah payah menaklukkan Pemberontakan Diponegoro, tahun 1829 Raja Willem III memerintahkan Johannes van den Bosch (1780-1844) untuk berangkat ke Jawa. Menunjuknya sebagai gubernur Jenderal yang memimpin seluruh tanah jajahan Kerajaan Belanda di seluruh dunia, yang menurut Pramoedya Ananta Toer (alm.) di “Jalan Raya Post” berpusat di Batavia. Sejak itu, dimulailah babak baru penindasan yang jauh lebih mengerikan; sistem tanam paksa. Read the rest of this entry »


Message from Fidel Castro

February 20, 2008

Message from the Commander in Chief

 

Dear compatriots:

Last Friday, February 15, I promised you that in my next reflection I would deal with an issue of interest to many compatriots. Thus, this now is rather a message.

The moment has come to nominate and elect the State Council, its President, its Vice-Presidents and Secretary.

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In memoriam Suharto (1921-2008), Food Crisis, the Legacy of Suharto

February 13, 2008

Syamsul Ardiansyah
Institute for National and Democratic Studies

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One of the biggest myths of Suharto is his success in agricultural development. For his followers, Suharto was famous as the President of Indonesia that could achieve food self-sufficiently. As a person who believed came from the poor peasant’s family, Suharto also praised for his success to control on the domestic-food market and brought cheap food for the people.

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