Talk:Asia Raya

A fact from Asia Raya appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 May 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that from 1944, subscribers to Asia Raja were charged an extra fee for supporting forced labourers?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/May.

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Romusha and forced laborers

Here "forced laborers" is used as a substitute for the word "romusha". In fact it is neither a translation (that would be "laborer" or something like it), or is it a one to one correspondence. A particular set of laborers (primarily from or on Java), most of whom were not particularly happy to be recruited, are being referred to here. Forced laborers in Germany, for example, are not included.

The correct term is "romusha" in English and Indonesian. As the term has been linked directly to the romusha page, I'd rather someone more skilled fix this. Crisco 1492 perhaps? (Dewobroto (talk) 04:26, 23 August 2016 (UTC))[reply]