Kisah hidup soe hok gie biography

“Seorang anak Sastra Sunda bahkan berkata: Dari Ave Maria ke Jalan Lain ke Roma adalah karangan Goethe (orang boleh pingsan deh).”~Soe Hok Gie

Short Historical Background

The Nippon troops invasion in March 1942 marked the ending of Dutch colonial rule that incited hope for many Indonesians. In Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s autobiography, he mentioned a memory of the Japanese arrival in his town, Blora, Middle Java. Japanese soldiers came with trucks written with slogans such as ‘Japan-Indonesia Together’. They loudly hummed Indonesia Raya with intermittent cries of “Japan is your older brother!” Even Pramoedya recalled that “With the arrival of the Japanese just about everyone in town was full of hope, except for those who had worked in the service of the Dutch.” (p.158). Indonesia’s sentiment for the Japanese was from their vision of Asia for Asians, which was essentially used to infuriate the Allies and Dutch East Indies colony.

Time then revealed that the Japanese came to Indonesia for something other than liberating the nation from Dutch colonialism. They did facilitate Indonesia’s national awakening by arming Indonesians and allowing the development of political organizations. It was with help of the Indonesian ruling classes and politicians that the Japanese got

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