[Fred Nerks]

Malcolm X, Sukarno’s
Indonesia, and the
Politics of Bandung
F riday, February 25, 2011
12:00 NOON

Campus Life Building, Room 110
Sukarno, Indonesia’s first president, and Malcolm X shared the platform at Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1956,
introduced there by mutual friend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
The relationship launched there endured until Malcolm X’s
untimely death in 1965, two weeks before he was slated to speak at the Asian-African Islamic Conference in Jakarta. He had also planned to attend the tenth anniversary celebration of the 1955 Bandung Conference, the first large-scale Asian-African conference. Iandola explores
this little-known relationship to illuminate their ideological affinities as well as the Cold War politics of the Third World.

Laura Iandola
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Graduate Assistant, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

http://www.niu.edu/CSEAS/lecture/Spring2011LectureSeries/Iandola.pdf

[Fred Nerks]

1.Suharto’s body was taken from Jakarta to the Giri Bangun mausoleum complex near the Central Java city of Solo. He was buried alongside his late wife in a state military funeral with full honours, with the Kopassus elite forces and KOSTRAD commandos as the honour guard and pallbearers and Commander of Group II Kopassus Surakarta Lt.Colonel Asep Subarkah.

2.Soebarkah is how Subarkah used to be spelled in 1961. Bahasa Indonesia used “oe” at that time, but changed the spelling to eliminate Dutch influence. Which explains why people were born Soekaro and Soeharto but died as Sukarno or Suharto. Djakarta too changed into Jakarta (that is also reflected in these documents). Yes, Subarkah is a common Indonesian surname - one of the important military officers carrying Mr Suharto’s coffin was a Subarkah.