Ayik Umar Said
Indonesian-born French journalist and activist (1928-2011)
André Aumars (26 October 1928 – 8 October 2011), born Ayik Umar Said, was an Indonesian-born French journalist and activist. Umar Said is best known for his contributions to the Indonesian delegation at the Tricontinental Conference in Cuba in 1966 and his political writings against the reign of Suharto of the mid-1960s and on the 30 September Movement, and to the Parisian cooperative restaurant Indonesia which acted as a political refuge during the 1990s. His journalistic contributions include those to Indonesia Raya, Ekonomi Nasional in 1965 where he was editor-in-chief, Harian Rakjat, and his own monthly Chine Express which detailed the actualities of Chinese politics during the 1980s and 90s.
Biography
Early life
Umar Said was born on 26 October 1928, two days before the Youth Pledge, in a village called Tumpang in Pakis, Malang, East Java in the Dutch East Indies. His father, Hardjowinoto, a headteacher at a local school in Karangsemi, a village in the Nganjuk Regency, near Ngrajeg and Baron, was an admirer of Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto, an Indonesian nationalist, hence his namesake. During his years in the local junior high school in Kediri, starting from 1942, he became diligently interested in the Japanese language.
During the August Revolution, he was captivated by the Indonesian independence movement. After the Japanese surrender on 19 August 1945, ideas of an independentist revolution began to brew. In the months of September and October 1945, he and his friend living in Ngrajeg began collecting donations in passenger trains to fund the movement. During these times, he visited the Indonesian People's Revolutionary Front headquarters in Surabaya.
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