Surat Dari Digul Abdurachman - Interview file

Item

Title
Surat Dari Digul Abdurachman - Interview file
Subject
Dutch East Indies
Internment camps
Nationalism
Indonesia--History--Revolution, 1945-1949
Detention of persons
Prisoners of war--Australia
Category
3. World War I
4. World War II
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Author
Dulrachman
Keywords
Boven Digoel
Current holder
Flinders University
Period of reference 
1931 – 1972
Date
January 1, 1931
Item number
AL/Thesis/169
Access rights
Digitised
Rights 
In Copyright (although current copyright status is unclear)
Country of origin
Indonesia
Australia
Language 
Indonesian
Description from source
Abdurachman / Dulrachman was a member of the nationalist movement; account of his escape from Boven Digul prison camp in 1929; recapture in Australia and subsequent return to Digul; he was taken again to Australia with other inmates by Dutch in 1942-1945; he is mentioned in “Black Armada” by Rupert Lockwood as a spokesperson for the Indonesian prisoners brought from Boven Digul prison camp to Australia before the Japanese occupied Indonesia. ‘Riwajat Dulrachman’; interview with Dulrachman by A. Lucas; biographical notes. Typed; handwritten, 18 pages. This file was donated by Anton Lucas, Adelaide, S.A. Anton Lucas Collection.
Physical format
Manuscripts
Conversation or interview transcripts
Typescripts