Soeraedi Tahsin (born July 6 in Pandeglang, died February 25, 2003, in

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), also known as Eddie Soeraedi, was an Indonesian journalist and diplomat. He was the founding editor of the publication ''Berita Indonesia'' ('Indonesian News'), the first republican newspaper in Batavia.''De Volkskrant''.
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Biography

Tahsin served as the editor-in-chief of ''

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'', the daily newspaper of the Indonesian Party (Partindo). As of 1958 he was the general secretary of the Union of Indonesian Journalists (PWI). In 1964 he was named ambassador of Indonesia to

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by President

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. After a military takeover in 1965 and the massacres of 1965-66, Tahsin did not return to Indonesia. Instead he went into exile in

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. The Indonesian government withdrew his citizenship soon after the coup, leaving him stranded in Beijing. In February 1970, Imris Idris was named as the new Indonesian ambassador to Mali to replace Tahsin. Tahsin later moved to the

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, entering the country illegally in 1977. He taught the Indonesian language at the ''Volksuniversiteit'' and started a publishing house–bookstore, named Manus Amici, in

in 1981. He died in Amsterdam in 2003.

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