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Proklamasi Kemerdekaan Indonesia: English name: Proclamation of Indonesian Independence: Date: 17 August 1945; 79 years ago () Time: 10:00 AM JST : Venue: Sukarno's house at 56 Jalan Pegangsaan Timur, (now Taman Proklamasi). Location: Jakarta, Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies → Republic of Indonesia: Participants: Signatories: Sukarno ...
The building was built in 1920 following the design of J.F.L. Blankenberg. [1] It is a two-floored, 1,138 m2 Art-Deco-style building over a 3,914 m2 plot of land. [2] [3] In 1931, the building was bought by insurance company Nillmij. [3] At the time the Pacific War broke out, the building was being as the British General Consulate.
The committee, which was supposed to lay the foundations for the national identity of Indonesia by drafting a constitution, consisted of 62 Indonesian members, 47 of whom belonged to the secular nationalists and 15 to the Islamists. [3] Members of the Islamist camp wanted a new state which was based on sharia law, as opposed to a secular state. [4]
The Indonesian National Revolution (Indonesian: Revolusi Nasional Indonesia), also known as the Indonesian War of Independence (Indonesian: Perang Kemerdekaan Indonesia, Dutch: Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog), was an armed conflict and diplomatic struggle between the Republic of Indonesia and the Dutch Empire and an internal social ...
The Independence Day of Indonesia (in Indonesian formally known as Hari Ulang Tahun Kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia shortened "HUT RI", or simply Hari Kemerdekaan, and colloquially referred by the people as Tujuhbelasan, meaning "the Seventeenth") is a national holiday in Indonesia commemorating the anniversary of Indonesia's proclamation of independence on 17 August 1945. [1]
Taman Proklamasi (Proclamation Park) is a park complex located in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The park is located at the former property of Sukarno at what was known as the house at Jalan Pegangsaan Timur 56. The house, now demolished, is where the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was first read by Sukarno. [1]
Burhanuddin Mohammad Diah (7 April 1917 – 10 June 1996), born only as Burhanuddin, was an Indonesian journalist, diplomat, and businessman, who served as the 18th Indonesian Minister of Information from 1966 until 1968, under the presidencies of Sukarno and Suharto, during the transition to the New Order.
The Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence (Indonesian: Panitia Persiapan Kemerdekaan Indonesia, abbreviated as PPKI; Japanese: 独立準備委員会, Hepburn: Dokuritsu Junbi Īnkai) was a body established on 7 August 1945 to prepare for the transfer of authority from the occupying Japanese to Indonesia.