Wedange Wis Entek

He always drank tea or a hot drink of steeped orange leaves. He often shared his food with his men. He donated his wife's jewelry to get military rations.

November 13, 2012

Tobang, tobang, wedange wis entek!" (Tobang, the tea is finished). This cry was frequently heard from the house of a penewua subdistrict-level official in the Yogyakarta 'administration'at Kretek, Bantul, Yogyakarta. The man shouting was Soewondo, Gen. Sudirman's personal physician who went along with Sudirman during the guerrilla warfare following the Dutch attack on Yogyakarta on December 19, 1948.

For almost a week Sudirman and his men stayed at a

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