FORMATION OF FEDERATION OF PRINTING PRESS AND PUBLISHING WORKERS' UNIONS IN DJAKARTA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005200240006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Indonesia
SUBJECT Formation of Federation of -Printing Press
and Publishing workers 2 Unions in Djakarta
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On 4 June 1950, a meeting of 30 delegates representing 18 composers,
printers, and related unions of Djakarta, was held in the Sekola Rakjat,
Salemba 33, Djakarta.
At the meeting it was agreed to form afedsrstion of the unions to be known
as the 6arekat Buruh Pert jetakan dawn Penerbitan Indonesia (SERBUPPIN)
(Federation of Printing and Publishing Press Workers Unions of Indonesia)'o
headquarters of the federation will be at Jalan 1adj?a 3, Djakarta.
Officers of the federation are:
Chairman Suhardo A Javanese Communist who
is a subordinate of Su-
pranotoe in the Sentral
Organisasie Buruh Seluruh
Indonesia (SOBSI)
Deputy Chairman Sumardhi.
General Secretary Munadi
4. The meeting adopted a resolution stating that, as a means of saving the
national revolution from terror and imperialism, labor, reinforced by the
peasantry and the rest of the people, must lead the continuation of the
revolutionary struggle."
25X1A * Conment., 20 June 1950, reported that Supranoto
a een ousted from has pos. ion as head of the Djakarta branch of the
SOBSI, reportedly "for spending too much money to his own aadvantage.'s
25X1Xomr~ento The formation of the new federation means that now
practically all printing press and related workers in Djakarta are under
the influence of SOBSIe
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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