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===Provisional House of Representatives (1950-1956)===
Following the in 1949 and the [[Provisional Constitution of 1950]], KNIP was expanded into the [[Provisional House of Representatives]] and a number of former KNIP members were appointed to it. Tan joined as a representative of the 15-member Socialist Party faction under [[Soebadio Sastrosatomo]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Fractions and sections in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia and a short biography of the chairman, vice chairmen and members of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia on August 1, 1954. |date=1954 |publisher=Indonesia. Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. |location=Jakarta |page=4 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924023459419?urlappend=%3Bseq=15%3Bownerid=119808867-19 |language=en}}</ref> He was also briefly a member of the [[Chinese Indonesian Democratic Party]] ({{lang|id|Partai Demokrat Tionghoa Indonesia}}, PDTI) for a time, though he formally left it in 1953.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Suryadinata |first1=Leo |title=Peranakan Chinese identities in the globalizing Malay Archipelago |date=2022 |publisher=ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |location=Singapore |isbn=9789814951708 |page=217}}</ref><ref name="Suryadinata176" /><ref name="Lev1" />
 
One of his most high-profile moments during that session was his public advocacy for left-wingers and Chinese Indonesians arrested and held without charge in the [[1951 mass arrests in Indonesia|August 1951 mass arrests]]. After months of extralegal detention of thousands of citizens by the [[Soekiman Cabinet]] September, led an effort to put an official [[Interpellation (politics)|Interpellation]] to the government.<ref name="JB1">{{cite news |title=VRAGEN OVER ARRESTATIES: Interpellatie-voorstel bij parlement ingediend. |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010864096:mpeg21:p001 |work=Java-bode: nieuws, handels- en advertentieblad voor Nederlandsch-Indie |date=1951-09-22 |location=Jakarta |language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Usul interpelasi Mr. Tan Po Goan c.s. |url=https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/sea/newspapers/snpo19510922-01.1.1 |work=Sin Po |date=22 September 1951 |location=Jakarta |page=1 |language=id}}</ref> He worried that hundreds of people had been held in Jakarta arrests since August and none had been convicted yet, due to the weak legal basis for their arrest.<ref>{{cite news |title="Onrust onder de hevolhtng" Interpellatie-voorstel in Parlement aanvaard "Honderden beroofd van hun vrijhei zonder krachtige rechtsgronden". |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010893853:mpeg21:p002 |work=Algemeen Indisch dagblad : de Preangerbode |date=27 September 1951 |location=Bandung |page=2 |language=nl}}</ref> He led several rounds of debate with the government on this matter over a two month period.<ref name="JB2">{{cite news |title=INTERPELLATIE OVER ARRESTATIES: Regeringsantwoord niet bevredigend geacht. |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010864117:mpeg21:p002 |work=Java-bode : nieuws, handels- en advertentieblad voor Nederlandsch-Indie |date=20 October 1951 |location=Jakarta |page=2 |language=nl}}</ref> In November, Tan and some of the left-wing parties tried to pass a censure motion against Soekiman, but were voted down.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mr. Tan Po Goan: Nog geen 5% van gearresteerden zullen voor gerecht kunnen worden gedaagd. |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMNIOD04:000099757:mpeg21:p001 |work=Nieuwe courant |date=2 November 1951 |location=Surabaya |language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Regeringsantwoord over arrestaties goedgekeurd. |url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010864128:mpeg21:p002 |work=Java-bode : nieuws, handels- en advertentieblad voor Nederlandsch-Indie |date=2 November 1951 |location=Jakarta |page=2 |language=nl}}</ref>
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