The Sukarno Era of Indonesian History - 0 views
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The Independence Movement is almost synonomous with the political leader Sukarno.
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In 1928 he helped found the Partei Nasional Indonesia (PNI), the Indonesian Nationalist Party
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Sukarno came to the attention of the Dutch authorities and he was arrested in 1931 and sent into exile to the island of Flores.
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Sukarno cooperated with the Japanese trying to get what assistance he could for the future independence of Indonesia.
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After the surrender of the Japanese Government on August 15, 1945 Sukarno and Muhammad Hatta declared the independence of Indonesia on August 17th. It is notable that Sukarno and the other nationalists insisted that the new nation would include all the territories conquered by the Dutch, even those that had no cultural affiliation with the Javanese or other Malay peoples. This meant that Sukarno was not opposed to imperialism per se but only opposed to the Javanese being the victim of it.