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The Heroes Monument in Surabaya commemorates this battle. [18] 10 November is now commemorated in Indonesia as "Heroes' Day", in memory of the battle. [19] The Scottish-American Indonesian sympathiser K'tut Tantri also witnessed the Battle of Surabaya, which she later recorded in her memoirs Revolt in Paradise. Prior to the fighting, she and a ...
A group of Dutch people under the leadership of W. V. C. Ploegman on the evening of 19 September 1945, at 21.00, raised the Dutch flag, without the consent of the Surabaya Residency Government (which was pro-Jakarta), on the top level of the Yamato Hotel, on the north side of it, to mark the birthday of Queen Wilhelmina, in an open defiance of ...
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Sukarno greeted by children and Surabaya residents during his arrival at Surabaya Gubeng railway station, 22 May 1952 Both the Federal Constitution of 1949 and the Provisional Constitution of 1950 were parliamentary in nature, where executive authority laid with the prime minister, and which on paper limited presidential power.
The Tanjung Priok massacre was an incident that occurred on 12 September 1984, in the port area of Tanjung Priok, Jakarta, Indonesia.Government reports give a total of 24 killed and 54 injured, while survivors report over 100 killed when military personnel opened fire on protestors.
Alistair Hendry as Musa, [5] a thirteen year old boy who works as a shoe-shiner to support his ill mother in Surabaya. He becomes a courier for the Indonesian nationalists during the events leading up to the Battle of Surabaya. [6] Joe Murray as old Musa, Resident Soedirman, and parchment text. [5] Eileen Shannon as young Musa, a nurse, and ...
The APRA coup d'état (Indonesian: Peristiwa Kudeta Angkatan Perang Ratu Adil) or the January 23 coup d'etat (Indonesian: Kudeta 23 Januari) was a coup d'état by Raymond Westerling's Legion of the Just Ruler (APRA) to capture Bandung and Jakarta, with the aim to overthrow Sukarno's unitary Republic of Indonesia.
The Trisakti shootings, also known as the Trisakti tragedy (Indonesian: Tragedi Trisakti), took place at Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia, on 12 May 1998. At a demonstration demanding President Suharto's resignation, Indonesian Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed protestors. Four students, Elang Mulia Lesmana, Heri Hertanto, Hafidin ...