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- ↑ Hindley, Donald. The Communist Party of Indonesia, 1951-1963 . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. p. 153
- ↑ Galenson, Walter. Labor in Developing Economies . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. p. 95
- 1 2 Galenson, Walter. Labor in Developing Economies . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. p. 99
- ↑ Pompe, Sebastiaan. Indonesian Law 1949-1989: A Bibliography of Foreign Language Materials with Brief Commentaries on the Law . Dordrecht [u.a.]: Nijhoff, 1992. p. 227
- ↑ Hindley, Donald. The Communist Party of Indonesia, 1951-1963 . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. p. 336
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