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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.
Sartono (on the far right), as a student in the Netherlands. Sartono was born in Wonogiri, near what is today Surakarta, on 5 August 1900. [2] Born to a noble ethnic-Javanese family, he was the second oldest of seven children.