KARTOSOEWIRJO’S opposition was sown when Indonesia made a historical agreement with the Dutch. Prime Minister Amir Sjarifuddin signed the pact on a warship belonging to the United States, the USS Renville, on January 17, 1948. One of the points in the Renville Agreement set the Van Mook line as the boundary between Indonesian territory and that of the Dutch. As a consequence, the entire Indonesian army had to leave the region of West Java remai