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- ↑ Legge, J. D. Intellectuals and Nationalism in Indonesia: A Study of the Following Recruited by Sutan Sjahrir in Occupation Jakarta . [Ithaca, N.Y.]: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project Publications, 1988. p. 121
- ↑ Rose, Saul. Socialism in Southern Asia. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. p. 152
- ↑ Legge, J. D. Intellectuals and Nationalism in Indonesia: A Study of the Following Recruited by Sutan Sjahrir in Occupation Jakarta . [Ithaca, N.Y.]: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project Publications, 1988. p. 115
