Archives Oei Tjoe Tat

Period 1926, 1947-1995
Total size   0.62 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Solo, Java, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) 1922, died in 1996; politician; graduated at the Universiteit van Indonesië in Batavia (Jakarta) 1948; vice-president of the Partai Demokrat Tionghoa Indonesia (PDTI) in 1953; joined the Badan Permusyawaratan Kewarganegaraan Indonesia (Baperki) in 1954; from 1960 active in the Partai Indonesia (Partindo) and member of its central committee; Minister of State from 1963; detained after the failed coup d'état of 1965 he spent over ten years in prison, not being tried until 1976; released in 1977; his memoirs `Memoar Oei Tjoe Tat: Pembantu Presiden Soekarno' (`The memoirs of Oei Tjoe Tat: President Soekarno's Assistent') were forbidden by the government.

Content

Correspondence, including letters to his wife Rieka Oei, with Daniel S. Lev, W.F. Wertheim and others 1947-1994 and n.d.; diaries and notes 1965, 1977-1978 [-1979], 1987 and n.d.; personal documents including documents on his trial in 1976, 1940, 1947-1994 and n.d.; documents concerning his membership of Baperki 1958-1959; documents relating to his work as Minister of State, including minutes of cabinet meetings 1964-1965 and n.d.; typescript and a proof of his memoirs (1974-) 1986-1995; transcriptions of interviews with Oei Tjoe Tat 1987-1993; some printed material 1963-1965, 1979, 1989-1992.

Processing information

List made by Tiny de Boer in 1997