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Created page with '{{Infobox person |name = Satya Graha |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1931|8|5|df=y}} |birth_place = Blitar, Dutch East Indies |occupation = Journalist }} '''Satya Graha''' (also spelled '''Satyagraha'''; born 5 August 1931) is an Indonesian former journalist, mostly active during the Sukarno period in the 1950s and the 1960s within the ''Suluh Indonesia'' newspaper. Having worked at the newspaper since its founding, he served as its final...'
 
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Between 1956 and 1965, Satya made three visits to the [[People's Republic of China]]. He wrote extensively of his visits, generally praising the Chinese government's programs such as the [[People's commune|agricultural communes]].<ref name="liu94">{{cite book |last1=Liu |first1=Hong |title=China and the Shaping of Indonesia, 1949-1965 |date=2011 |publisher=[[NUS Press]] |isbn=978-9971-69-381-7 |page=94|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/China_and_the_Shaping_of_Indonesia_1949/foSMl7qcxl4C |language=en}}</ref> He also drew contrasts between the apparent political unity within China with the unstable domestic political situation in Indonesia,{{sfn|Liu|2011|p=146}} and between the [[Chinese Indonesians]] (unfavorably) with the mainland Chinese.{{sfn|Liu|2011|p=173}}
 
In July 1965, during an internal conflict within PNI, Isnaeni fell out of favor and was removed from his chief editor post, with Satya appointed by party chairman [[Ali Sastroamidjojo]] to replace him.<ref name="historia"/> Several months later, following the [[30 September movement]], ''Suluh Indonesia'' was banned by authorities with its final edition on 2 October 1965, while Satya was arrested on 18 October and imprisoned without trial in [[Salemba]]. He was released in late 1970, and worked at several private companies. As of 2016, he lived in [[Bekasi]], still working as a translator.<ref name="ks"/>
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