The Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was read at
10.00 a.m. on Friday, August 17, 1945. The declaration marked the start of the
diplomatic and armed-resistance of the Indonesian National Revolution, fighting
against the forces of the Netherlands and pro-Dutch civilians, until the latter
officially acknowledged Indonesia's independence in 1949. In 2005, the
Netherlands declared that they had decided to accept de facto 17 August 1945 as
Indonesia's independence date. The document was signed by Sukarno and Mohammad
Hatta, who were appointed President and Vice-president respectively the
following day.
The draft was prepared only a few hours earlier, on the
night of August 16, by Sukarno, Hatta, and Soebardjo, at Rear-Admiral Maeda
(Minoru) Tadashi's house, Miyako-Doori 1, Jakarta . The original Indonesian Declaration of
Independence was typed by Sayuti Melik . Maeda himself was sleeping in his room
upstairs. He was agreeable to the idea of Indonesia'sindependence, and had lent
his house for the drafting of the declaration. Marshal Terauchi, the
highest-ranking Japanese leader in South East Asia and son of Prime Minister
Terauchi Masatake, was however against Indonesia's independence, scheduled for
August 24.
While the formal preparation of the declaration, and the
official independence itself for that matter, had been carefully planned a few
months earlier, the actual declaration date was brought forward almost
inadvertently as a consequence of the Japanese unconditional surrender to the
Allies on August 15 following the Nagasaki atomic bombing. The historic event
was triggered by a plot, led by a few more radical youth activists such as Adam
Malik and Chairul Saleh, that put pressure on Soekarno and Hatta to proclaim
independence immediately. The declaration was to be signed by the 27 members of
the Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence (PPKI) symbolically
representing the new nation's diversity. The particular act was apparently
inspired by a similar spirit of the United States Declaration of Independence.
However, the idea was heavily turned down by the radical activists mentioned
earlier, arguing that the committee was too closely associated with then soon
to be defunct Japanese occupation rule, thus creating a potential credibility issue.
Instead, the radical activists demanded that the signatures of six of them were
to be put on the document. All parties involved in the historical moment
finally agreed on a compromise solution which only included Soekarno and
Mohammad Hatta as the co-signers 'in the name of the nation of Indonesia'
Soekarno had initially wanted the declaration to be read at
Ikada Plain, the large open field in the centre of Jakarta, but due to
unfounded widespread apprehension over the possibility of Japanese sabotage,
the venue was changed to Soekarno's house at Pegangsaan Timur 56. In fact there
was no concrete evidence for the growing suspicions, as the Japanese had
already surrendered to the Allies, The declaration of independence passed
without a hitch.
The proclamation at 56, Jalan Pegangsaan Timur, Jakarta, was
heard throughout the country because the text was secretly broadcast by
Indonesian radio personnel using the transmitters of the JAKARTA Hoso Kyoku
radio station. An English translation of the proclamation was broadcast
overseas.
1.Orientation :
character : sukarno,hatta,subarjo,sayuti melik ,adam malik,chairul saleh, and
tadashi maeda
Time :
-The Proclamation of Indonesian
Independence was read at 10.00 a.m. on Friday, August 17, 1945.
- The draft was prepared only a few hours earlier, on the night of
August 16, by Sukarno, Hatta, and Soebardjo, at Rear-Admiral Maeda (Minoru)
Tadashi's house
Place :
- The draft was prepared only a few hours earlier, on the night of August
16, by Sukarno, Hatta, and Soebardjo, at Rear-Admiral Maeda (Minoru)
Tadashi's house
- but due to unfounded widespread apprehension over the possibility of
Japanese sabotage, the venue was changed to Soekarno's house at Pegangsaan
Timur 56.
2.problem
problem =
when japan had surrendered to the ally force (us,england, dutch,etc ) because japan had attacked with Nagasaki
atomic bombing , In this indonesian’s
people want to declarate about their
independence but they need to
make the draft quickly and need tell it without a sabotage from other country
Climax =
soekarno want to declarate indonesian’s independence at Ikada Plain but they
moved it at soekarno house because they thought
when they do it at Ikada Plain ,japanese will sabotage the declaration
3.Resolution
happy ending because indonesian success declarate their independece
without a sabotage form other country especially from japanese
4.Moral Message
we should keep,protect,guard,take care of
our nation independence because our
hero at that time used all they might
to arranged,to prepare,to did the declaration
