Sukarno reads the proklamasi on 17-08-1945
On August 17th 1945 the Dutch East Indies nationalists Sukarno and Hatta took their chance to realize their ideal, namely an independent Indonesian republic encapsuling all the islands. They gave notice via a proclamation which however was not acknowledged by the Dutch. This was because The Netherlands wanted the situation to revert back to how it was before 1942 and in November 1945 they sent troops. The Britons who were determined to stay neutral between the Dutch and the natives didn’t allow them to enter Java and sent them to Sumatra, Malakka and Thailand.
