It is Friday, August 17, 1945, 10 o’clock in the morning. On the veranda of his home in Jakarta, Soekarno reads a few historical sentences from a note. ‘We, the people of Indonesia, hereby declare the independence of Indonesia. Matters concerning the transfer of power and other matters are carefully carried out in the shortest possible time.’
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