Aliarcham

[1] In the late 1910s he started to meet many of the intellectuals who wrote for those papers and who were active in radial organizations, such as Semaun and Henk Sneevliet, and joined the Sarekat Islam.

[1] The speech was probably just a pretext, as a number of other Semarang PKI leaders were arrested at around the same time, including Boedisotjitro and Partondo, editor in chief of Sinar Hindia.

[1] Aliarcham held leadership positions in some of these strikes, including as chairman of the union of sugar cultivators (Sarekat Boeroeh Goela or Inlandschen Suikerbond), and was living in Surabaya at that time.

[22] A number of other high-ranking PKI figures were also caught up in that round of arrests, including Darsono and Mardjoan, leader of the dockworkers union and other PKI-affiliated groups.

[23][24] The arrests prompted official complaints from Communist members of Dutch parliament, including Louis de Visser, but deportations, exile and internment were a well-established technique and the government did not back down.

[1] Political prisoners were generally not kept in Merauke for long out of fear they would interact with locals or with sailors at the port; Aliarcham, Darsono and Mardjoan were soon ordered to be sent to Okaba instead.

[36][35] That more remote camp was reserved for "irreconcilable" communist prisoners who would not act deferential to the authorities or accept paid work as "functionaries" or regular labourers.

[1][3] He was eventually joined there by a number of former Semarang PKI figures aside from Mardjoan who had been exiled with him; people such as Kadarisman, Soekendar and Mohamed Ali.

[40] In December 1928, Henk Sneevliet, Dutch Communist and founding member of the PKI, tried to wire a "Christmas present" of 480 guilders to Aliarcham and Gondhojoewono on behalf of the National Labor Secretariat.

[42] It may have been a stunt by Sneevliet to demonstrate the unfairness of the situation of the detainees; although legally people were allowed to send them books and personal items, most were turned away.

[45] The photo of his grave site, with a wood and tin structure built over it and with a poem by Henriette Roland Holst inscribed on it, was in particular widely reproduced.