Student Soldiers: A Memoir of the Battle that Sparked Indonesia’s National RevolutionYayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, 2015 - 204 pagine Hario Kecik’s diary is without peer in Indonesian literature as a portrait of talented and brave young revolutionaries during the first days of the Republic which followed a brutal Japanese occupation and finally led to the November 1945 Battle for Surabaya, the longest, bloodiest and most decisive warfare in the Republic’s history. More than one hundred thousand young men and women - the majority under twenty years of age - took up weapons against the modern British-Indian Army and arriving Dutch forces intending to re-establish Dutch colonial rule in the Indies. For Indonesian readers, no period of Indonesian history will better repay study than the events in Surabaya in the last months of 1945, when the August 17 Proclamation of Independence seemed had become almost a dead letter as the British and Japanese forces to combined to put down Merdeka! movements in Bandung, Bogor, Cirebon and Semarang. Young readers, especially, will take courage and marvel at the bravery of school-aged boys taking up arms, while Indonesian readers in general will finally understand that while August 17 was the date of the Proclamation, independence was by no means guaranteed as city after city fell post-war to the British. Surabaya and Hario’s Kecik’s generation changed all that |
Sommario
Tearing of the Tricolour | 27 |
Arms Raid at Don Bosco | 49 |
The Fall of the Kempeitai | 63 |
The Peoples Military Police Force | 84 |
ThreeDay War | 108 |
Death of Brigadier Mallaby | 138 |
The British Ultimatum | 153 |
Battle of Surabaya | 172 |
Epilogue | 199 |
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action Allies Amir Syarifuddin ammunition Arek armed Army arrived artillery asrama attack Battle for Surabaya Blitar boys Brigadier Mallaby British Bung Tomo ceasefire combat Commander compound Darmo defensive Dul Arnowo East Java enemy feared fighting fire flag forces former PETA Governor Surio Governor’s office grenades guard Gubeng Hartadi Hasan Hasanuddin headquarters heard independence Indies Indonesian Internatio Building internees Iskak Iwabe Jakarta Japanese military Jombang Kali Kali Mas Kaliasin kampung Kecik Kempei Kempeitai killed knew later machine guns Madurese Malang Mansergh meeting Merdeka Military Police Mojokerto move night November numbers October Oranje Pasar People’s Security Perak PETA PETA soldiers pistols posts Prapatan prisoners PTKR raids Rebel Radio Republic rifles road romusha Ruslan Abdulgani senior shelling shooting shot shouting Sidoarjo soon squad street fighters Sudirman Sukarno Sumarman Sungkono Surabaya surrender Tambaksari Tanjung Perak tanks troops trucks units weapons Wonokromo young youth