Ayik Umar Said

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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, restaurant Indonesia which acted as a political refuge during the 1990s. Harian Rakjat, and his own monthly Chine Express which detailed the actualities of Chinese politics 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. Umar Said, with the help of a delegation of Indonesian Youth Force under the chief of the state police and other young activists, then travelled back to Surabaya to spread revolutionary influence in Sumatra. Upon arriving in Palembang, he met with Adnan Kapau Gani, who was fluent in English and had connections with representatives of the Allied forces, and who greatly influenced him.

In November 1945, he joined the People's Security Agency during the Indonesian National Revolution to participate in the Battle of Surabaya,

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