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Sutomo, the Indonesian Study Club and organised labour in late colonial Surabaya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2007

John Ingleson
John Ingleson*
Affiliation:
John Ingleson is a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at University of Western Sydney, Australia.
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*Correspondence in connection with this paper should be addressed to: jei@uws.edu.au.
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Abstract

The labour movement in colonial Indonesia is an important part of Indonesian history. The accepted convention is that after 1926, there was little or no labour activity in the colony, or at least little of any consequence. This article argues that much was going on but that it was of a different character from earlier years because of the limitations imposed by the colonial government. The Indonesian Study Club, based in Surabaya and led by Dr Sutomo, had a central role. The creation of labour unions was part of a broader effort to create enduring linkages between the western educated Surabaya elite and Surabaya workers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 31 - 57
Copyright
Copyright © The National University of Singapore 2008

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