From Seko to Diponegoro

That morning the soft rumble of armored vehicles could be heard moving from the direction of Prambanan Temple toward Yogyakarta, then the capital of the Republic of Indonesia. The so-called Second Dutch Police Action or the second Dutch military aggression had started in the middle of December 1948. People were screaming, The Dutch have come!

All the tenants at the house in Bogem village outside Yogyakarta, where S. Sudjojono was staying, were rus

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