BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES IN INDONESIA

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• Publication Date: January 27, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. There are four bacteriological laboratories of note in Indonesia - the
Eykman Institute, before the i ar called the Queen Wilhelmina Institute of
Hygiene and Bacteriology; the Pasteur Institute and the Institute of
Analytical Chemistry, at Bandung; the Centrals Burgerlijke Zeekenverpleging,,
which is the bacteriological laboratory attached to the Central Public
Hospital in Semarang; and the Nederlandsoh Indische Arteen School in
Surabaya.
2. The Eykman Institute in Batavia had Professor J.E. Dinger, whose chief
assistant was Dr. R. Gilpin, in charge before the war. The laboratory
prepared the following bacteria: anti-smallpox, anti-cholera, anti-typhus,
anti-dysentery, anti-boil, and anti-tetanus. No experiments were made in
the preparation of virus bacteria such as the virus of infantile paralysis.
During the Japanese occupation,laboratory experiments were not continued.
From 1940 to 1942, Dr. A. Mochtar, a specialist in bacteriology and
therapeutics, was in charge of the bacteriological division of the Eykman
Institute. Dr. Mochtar is a leader of the Sentral Organisasie Buruh
Seluruh Indonesia(SOBSI) and an important contact between foreign and
native Communists.
3. Since 1947, the Fykman Institute, which serves also as a central laboratory
for the Department of Health, has had Haden Djuhana Wiradikarta as supervisor,
Haden Karmawan as assistant supervisor, and Dr. Hassan Basri in charge
of the serological section. Said Danuningrat, Iladen I:'arsa, and Dr. Radon
Abdulrachman are on its staff. Professor Mulock Houwer and Professor Cense
of the Dutch Medical College are supervisors of the laboratory at present,
but the laboratory is directed by subordinates. No effort has been made to
trace the microscopes and laboratory apparatus which disappeared from the
laboratory during the war.
4. The Intelligence Corps of the Base Command in Batavia learned in February
1947 that Professor Djuhana, assisted by Dr. Karmawan, was preparing typhus,
cholera, and dysentery germs for the purpose of contaminating the water
in the reservoir near Pasar Rebo, which is between Bogor and Batavia. When
the Dutch began "police action" on 21 July 1947 a number of tubes containing
these bacteria were missing from the laboratory.
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There are the following divisions in the Eykman Institute:
a. The Serological Division, where blood plasma and sera are kept. This
area is guarded by a permanent police force. It is difficult to keep
whole blood stored because of climatic conditions. The military keep
whole blood in special containers under refrigeration in mobile field
hospitals, one for each brigade.
b. The Bacteriological Division, where the culture of bacteria for
anti-toxins is carried out.
c. The Chemical Division, where first and second class medical students
study chemical a acts and phenomena of disease.
d. The Nutrition Division.
6. Some experimental work is being done in the military hygiene laboratory on
the bacteria of pare-typhus, typhoid fever, cholera, d'sentery (amoebic and
.bacterial), and tetanus. The maximum capacity of production is 1,000
kilograms per day.
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