When the Yard is Established
Ambitions, realities and historical glories marked the debate between founding fathers in determining the territory of Indonesia. Now, territorial borders are under threat.
August 16, 2005
THE Tjuo Sangi-In Building on Jalan Pejambon, Jakarta, July 10, 1945. The sun had set to the west when Kanjeng Raden Tumenggung Radjiman Wedyodiningrat knocked the gavel to continue the meeting in the second session period. Calmly, the physician from the Court of Surakarta Hadiningrat described the agenda of Dokuritsu Zyunbi Tjoosakai. Honorable members, we are now dealing with the territorial borders of Indonesia...Are we establishing a state wi
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