Talk:Mohammad Husni Thamrin

House arrest of Thamrin
The statement that Thamrin was put under house arrest because he was assisting the advancing Japanese forces in January 1941 requires revision. First, there seems to be a mistake in that the Japanese military advance was from December 1941. Even the advance to Southern Indochina (by agreement between Japan and the pressured French colonial authorities) was not until mid-1941. Thus the statement must be incorrect.

Rather there was something more going on here. Two points seem relevant: (1) the conflict with M. Tabrani of Pemandangan (although about 2 months before the house arrest of Thamrin, Tabrani had become a colonial government employee), and (2) Thamrin's introduction of E.F.E. Douwes Dekker to the Tokyo Municipal Economic something or another Office in Batavia for whom he wrote reports about oil....which was a critical issue in ongoing Japanese-Dutch negotiations.

I'm not quite ready to write up this section, so I am noting the problem and some possible sources here for anyone to use. I will try to return and fix the entry at some point in the future.

Some sources are the Riwajat Penghidupan dan Perdjuangan Mohd. Husni Thamrin by Matu Mona (1950, originally written Feb. 1941); Imam Soepardi's book of February 1941; Goto Kenichi's 1997 book on Japan-Indonesian interactions 1930s-1942. (Dewobroto (talk) 19:26, 16 August 2016 (UTC))