A glass of tea with no sugar. There was nothing more that Inggit Garnasih could serve her husband's guest. The jars in her kitchen lay face down, empty. A sack of rice was soon to be folded up. In June 1926, Sukarno and Inggit were indeed poor.

Despite his civil engineering title from Technische Hogeschoolnow the Bandung Institute of TechnologySukarno had no regular income. He was in fact offered by his lecturer, Prof. Wolff Schoemaker, to work wi