Sunday, August 16, 2009

Indonesian History on August 16, 1945

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Rengasdengklok Moment is starting from the "kidnapping" made by a number of youth (Adam Malik and Chaerul Saleh from Menteng 31) to Soekarno and Hatta. This occurred on 16 August 1945 at 04.30. WIB (abbreviated from Waktu Indonesia Barat = Indonesia West Time), Soekarno and Hatta have brought to Rengasdengklok, Karawang, West Java Province and then urged to speed up the proclamation of independence of the Republic of Indonesia, until the occurrence of the agreement between the old generation represented by Soekarno and Hatta with young generation represented by Mister Achmad Subardjo about when the proclamation will be implemented.

For more detail information in Bahasa Indonesia, please find on Wikipedia.

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