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handed over some of Ibrahim’s political writings to be passed on to
university students here. In 1975, he visited Malaysia with Ibrahim, but
I did not get to meet either of them.
10. Sulung bin Chik – Founder and Central Committee Member
Sulung bin Chik, from Pahang, worked as a Subordinate Officer at the
Malayan Railways. He had served as a volunteer in the Transport Unit
of the FMSVF. He was also arrested and imprisoned with other KMM
members just before the Invasion and released two and a half months
later, just before the fall of Singapore. When the British returned to power
in 1945, Sulung left for Sumatra in a junk and worked for the Transport
Unit of the Indonesian National Army. After Indonesia gained its
Independence, Sulung sought out Ibrahim in Jakarta, but was ignored. He
returned to Malaya disappointed. When I later met him in Pahang, he tried
to coax me into developing a piece of farmland in Pahang.
Notes
1. Name used by Ibrahim Yaakub after he moved to Indonesia on 19 August 1945 and
gained Indonesian citizenship.
2. Pseudonym used in several books Ibrahim Yaakub authored after his emigration to
Indonesia.
3. The last time we met was in my hut at Batu 20, Batu Kurau, Perak in August 1945,
a few days before the Japanese surrender and several days before he flew to Indonesia
in a Japanese bomber.
4. Copies of this letter were sent to then Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, Prof. Zainal
Abidin bin Abdul Wahid, Prof. Amat Juhari Moain and Enchik Buyung Adil.
5. Othman Mohd Noor, or M.N. Othman, denied this claim. Many claims made by
Ibrahim Yaakub in his letter to me were also printed by Utusan Malaysia, 11 April
1979, in an article entitled ‘Efforts to Develop KMM’, from materials Ibrahim Yaakub
sent to a Malaysian student.
6. On pages 9 and 10 of his letter to me, Ibrahim Yaakub stated: “And then, in
Singapore, I met a Domei News Agency agent who, in August 1941, gave me funds
to buy over the Warta Malaya newspaper.”
7. Translator’s Note: Haji Ahmad bin Mohd Amin, who is related to Pak Chik Ahmad,
has signed a statement testifying that even before the Japanese Invasion of Malaya,
Ibrahim had asked Pak Chik Ahmad to hide several gold bars that Ibrahim had
received from the Japanese. Pak Chik Ahmad, who was afraid that the bars might
be stolen from his wooden house in Taiping, buried them in a flowerpot. These bars
were returned to Ibrahim at the end of 1942. See Haji Ahmad’s signed statement in
Appendix 1 (p. 403).
8. KAME was the Japanese codename for KMM (Kesatuan Melayu Muda). Kame is
Japanese for ‘tortoise’, an animal that does not know retreat. Fujiwara Kikan was a
Japanese Military Intelligence Unit active in the invasion of Malaya. It was led by
Major Fujiwara Iwaichi. KAME’s secret insignia was a hexagon with the alphabet
‘F’ inside. All members and businesses under Fujiwara Kikan used the symbol ‘F’.