I was still 18 and Cak Roeslan—the name by which Roeslan Abdulgani was usually called—was 30 when I first met him in November 1944 in Surabaya. I, along with Chaerul Saleh and Sukarni, came to Surabaya to meet this city's youths.

Cak Roeslan founded the Young Indonesian Association, an organization that always criticized the Japanese political policies. That was why Japan's accomplices, mostly Indonesians formerly working for