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
I N T R O D U C T I O N
Biography
Oei Tjoe Tat
was born in Solo (Java), Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies), April 26,
1922 in a Chinese Indonesian middle class family. He played an important role
in the Indonesian political developments and became a confidant of president
Sukarno
. He was Minister of State during the events of
1965. He was characterized as a personality of integrity and strong
idealism.
During his studies he met his future wife
Kwee Loan
Nio (Rieka)
, whom he married at the end of the Japanese occupation.
He graduated in law at the Universiteit van Indonesië in Batavia
(Jakarta) in May 1948.
In the same year he joined a Batavia law firm.
Furthermore he was active in a number of Chinese and Indonesian organizations
like the Indonesian
Red Cross
, the
Tiong Hoa
Hwee Koan (THHK)
in Jakarta, and the
Union Makes Strong
(UMS)
, a soccer association in Jakarta.
From 1950-1953 he was
president of Sing Ming Hui in Jakarta, and in 1953 he became vice-president of
the
Partai Demokrat Tionghoa Indonesia (PDTI)
. In 1954 he
was one of the advocates for dissolving the PDTI and establishing Baperki
(
Badan Permusyawaratan Kewarganegaraan Indonesia
), with
the main purpose of integrating the Indonesian Chinese people in the Indonesian
society.
For Baperki he also became member of the Konstituante, who had
the task to design a new constitution for the Republic of Indonesia. Through
these activities he came into contact with people of various political
parties.
In 1960 he joined the
Partindo (Partai
Indonesia)
, a political group which broke away from the
Indonesian Nationalist Party
in the late 1950s, and became
member of its executive committee. From 1963-1966 he was attached to the
Cabinet Presidium by President Sukarno as Minister of State.
Detained by
the authorities after the 1965 failed coup he spent more than ten years in
prison without charge or trial. March 1976, however, he was tried on false
accusations, but was eventually released in December 1977 after the
intervention of Foreign Minister
Adam Malik
.
He
reopened his law firm, but had to close it down in 1985 after having a stroke.
In 1995 he published his memoirs entitled Memoar
Oei Tjoe
Tat
: Pembantu President
Sukarno
[The memoirs of
Oei Tjoe Tat
: President Sukarno's assistant] with the help
of friends, among them as senior editor the famous Indonesian novilist,
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
. After publication in Jakarta the
memoirs were forbidden by the
Suharto
regime.
Oei Tjoe Tat
died in 1996 in Jakarta at the age of
74.
Papers
The papers, written
in the Indonesian language and some in English and Dutch, were received by the
IISH
in 1997. They mainly consist of typescripts of his
memoirs, documents on Baperki, the Konstituante and documents of his activities
as Minister of State.
Albums with photographs were transferred to the
audiovisual section of the IIHS; A thesis on
Oei Tjoe Tat
and a report by
Kwik Kian Gie
were transferred to the
library of the IIHS.
Literature
`
Oei Tjoe Tat
:
Dilema peranakan di pentas politik Indonesia (1946-1966)', thesis by
Nopriyasman, University of Indonesia, Jakarta. 1995.
`In memoriam:
Oei Tjoe Tat
(1922-1996)' by Prof.Dr.
W.F.
Wertheim
. Published in IFM June-August 1996.
L I S T
Correspondence, diaries and notebooks
- 1
- Correspondence, including some letters to his wife Rieka Oei . 1947, 1949-1950, 1954, 1966, 1971, 1986-1994 and n.d. 1 folder.
Personal documents
- 6
- Personal documents, including a passport, biographical data, a membership card of the Indonesian Red Cross Society, photocopies of high school and university certificates, documents relating to his appointment as a legal advisor and other personal documents. 1926, 1940, 1947-1948, 1954-1956, 1958, 1960-1961, 1968, 1974, 1976-1978, 1987, 1991-1992. 1 cover.
Minister of State
- 11
- `Buku Kerdja' of the Sekretariat Musjawarah Pembantu Pimpinan Revolusi. Diaries. 1964-1965. 1 cover.
Memoirs
- 14-28
-
Typescripts of Memoar
Oei Tjoe Tat
. Pembantu Presiden
Sukarno
. With photocopies of the typescript and annexes.
1974-1976,
1986-1990,
1993-1994
and n.d.
11 covers, 3 folders and 1 volume.
NB. Edited by Pramudya Ananta Toer and Stanley Adi Prasetya (Jakarta , 1995 ).- 19
- Photocopies of parts of the typescript. With annexes and a letter from Oei Tjoe Tat to Jaap Erkelens . 1986.
- 22
- Photocopy of the typescript. Improved version. p. 1-171. With notes and photocopies of photographs and other parts of the typescript. 1987.
- 23
- Photocopy of the typescript. Improved version. p. 170-298. With photocopies of photographs and documents concerning his trial. 1974-1976, 1987, 1990, 1993 and n.d. (folder)
- 24
- List with names for the index, photocopies of the handwritten manuscript of chapter 26, typescript of the first chapter and notes by Oei Tjoe Tat . 1993 and n.d.
- 25
- Typescript `Memoar Politik. Dari Lelo Ledung Ke Kesadaran Politis' by Oei Tjoe Tat . Part II. 76 p. 1994.
- 26
- Typescript `Memoar Politik. Dari Lelo Ledung Ke Kesadaran Politis' by Oei Tjoe Tat . Part II. 76 p. 1994.
Documentation
- 33
- Text of a message by President Sukarno delivered at the opening of the `Kongres Nasional', held in Jakarta. 14 March 1963. Photocopy. 1 cover.
- 34
- Text of a message by President Sukarno delivered at the congress `Wanita Indonesia', held in Jakarta. 19 May 1963. Photocopy. 1 cover.