Dari Penjara Ke Penjara: Autobiografi Tan Malaka

by Tan Malaka

Tan Malaka menulis buku Dari Penjara ke Penjara dalam dua jilid terpisah. Jilid pertama menuturkan tentang pergulatannya di penjara Hindia-Belanda dan Filipina. Sedang jilid kedua menceritakan tentang "perjalanan"-nya dari Shanghai, Hongkong, hingga kembali ke tanah air. Buku yang ditulis oleh Tan Malaka dan berkisah soal perjalanan hidupnya mulai dari sekolah di Belanda, pulang ke Deli dan Semarang, dibuang ke Belanda lalu pergi ke Jerman, Rusia, Cina, menyelundup ke Filipina, Singapura, Myanmar, hingga kembali ke Indonesia. yang menarik, Tan Malaka tidak hanya menceritakan perjalanannya tapi juga kondisi di negeri-negeri yang disinggahinya. seperti tentang perjuangan Jose Rizal di Filipina, pandangannya tentang Sun Man (Sun Yat Sen) di Cina, tentang Stalin, Lenin, dan Trotsky di Rusia, hingga (di Indonesia) ketidaksetujuannya dengan Soekarno-Hatta yang memilih bekerja sama dengan Jepang saat masa pendudukan. Dalam buku ini, kedua jilid tersebut dirangkum menjadi satu.

560 pages, Paperback

Published January 21, 2022

About the author

Tan Malaka (1894 - February 21, 1949) was an Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader. A staunch critic of both the colonial Dutch East Indies government and the republican Sukarno administration that governed the country after the Indonesian National Revolution, he was also frequently in conflict with the leadership of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), Indonesia's primary radical political party in the 1920s and again in the 1940s.

A political outsider for most of his life, Tan Malaka spent a large part of his life in exile from Indonesia, and was constantly threatened with arrest by the Dutch authorities and their allies. Despite this apparent marginalization, however, he played a key intellectual role in linking the international communist movement to Southeast Asia's anti-colonial movements. He was declared a "hero of the national revolution" by act of Indonesia's parliament in 1963.

Reviews

[PB · Rating 5 out of 5]

An autobiography of an icon that has always been forgotten in Indonesian history. A must read !!