Biography of soekarno
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Sukarno - LAST REVIEWED: 27 April
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- LAST REVIEWED: 27 April
- LAST MODIFIED: 27 April
- DOI: /obo/
Bung Karno: sebuah bibliografi memuat daftar karya oleh dan tentang Bung Karno. 4th ed. Jakarta, Indonesia: Haji Masagung,
Bibliography of writings by and about Sukarno. Especially useful for tracking down less-well known writings and speeches of Sukarno, and for memoirs and other appraisals of Sukarno published in Indonesia during the s and s.
Dahm, Bernard. Sukarno and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
This translation from German remains the best guide to understanding the development of Sukarno’s vision for achieving freedom from imperial domination. Dahm’s analysis of Sukarno’s non-cooperation movement, the role of Javanese political culture in structuring his leadership, and the development Marhaenism—a variant of class-analysis fit to the Indonesian case—make up the scholarly consensus. Al
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Achmad Sukarno
(b. 6 June , d. 21 June ).
President of Indonesia –68 Born in Surabaya, Sukarno studied engineering in Bandung, where he became involved in the foundation of the Partai Nasionalis Indonesia (PNI) in Imprisoned by the Dutch colonial authorities (–31), he was exiled to Sumatra in He returned to Jakarta following the Japanese invasion, supporting the Japanese war effort in return for Japanese acceptance of his leadership among the nationalist community.
By the end of World War II Sukarno had acquired a unique position of authority among the Indonesian peoples, enabling him to declare Indonesian independence on 17 August He became President on 18 August, and subsequently united the heterogeneous resistance forces against the Dutch who were eager to reclaim their erstwhile colony. He was officially confirmed President upon independence in Increasingly dissatisfied with democracy, he introduced a system of Guided Democracy. With the consent of the army, he became Prime M
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The Independence Movement
The Independence Movement is almost synonomous with the political leader Sukarno. The Su in his name and many other Indonesian names is an honorific. More properly his name should have been written Su Karno. When he or others chose to use other honorifics such as Bung (brother) or Batak (father) his name became Bung Karno or Batak Karno. During his time his picture became one of the most familiar in the world.
Sukarno was born June 6, in Surabaja, Java of Javanese and Balinese parents. His father was a Javanese school teacher and his mother Balinese. He thus represented a mixture of the Islamic Javanese and Hindu Balinese Malay subcultures. He went to a secondary school in which most of the students were Dutch. He thus not only got a good education but became imbued with a fierce desire for Indonesian independence. In he received a grad in