Tan Malaka - Dari Penjara Ke Penjara

Anyone who fight for freedom, must be ready and sincere to be suffrered of losing his own true freedom - Tan Malaka.
Born in Suliki, west Sumatera in 1897, Tan Malaka once said that he put "Dari Penjara Ke Penjara ( From One Jail to Another Jail)" as the title of the book because he think that jail very related to the true freedom. He wrote this book in 1947 when he was at the jail in Ponorogo. He spend almost half of his life inside the jail and as an escapee.
However, Tan Malaka already giving all of his dedication for Indonesian true freedom thougt he was still doing his years of his life as an escapee in another nation and even he was imprisonment in hongkong, netherland and philipines because every of his move and action always be silently followed and watched by international intelligence.
This book wriiten by Tan Malaka himself in 2 different volume. The first volume tell the story when he was inside the jail of Indies Netherland and Philipines and the second volume tell about his "trip" as an escapee starting from Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore and then went back to his motherland, Indonesia,
He died in Indonesia, gunned down in February 19th 1949 by Indonesian army because misconception of interpreting command during his conflict with Sutan Sjahrir, the indonesian Prime Minister at the time. In1963, finally Soekarno the First President of Indonesia establish Tan Malaka as a National Hero.