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Sukarno

Also called: Soekarno, Bung Karno

Leader of the Indonesian independence movement who founded the Indonesian Nationalist Party in 1927, proclaimed independence in 1945 and became the first president

Born in East Java to a Javanese schoolteacher and a Balinese mother, he studied civil engineering at the Bandung technical college. He called for uniting nationalism, Islam and Marxism, and won fame with his 1930 courtroom defence "Indonesia Accuses". During the Japanese occupation he cooperated with Japan while preparing for independence, and in June 1945 he set out the state philosophy of Pancasila (Five Principles). He hosted the Bandung Conference in 1955 and led the non-aligned movement, but lost power after the 30 September Movement of 1965 and died under house arrest.

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    1927 – 1928Indonesian Nationalist Party and the Youth Pledgeleader

    Sukarno founded the Indonesian Nationalist Party in Bandung, calling for non-cooperation with the Dutch and full independence. The next year a youth congress pledged "one motherland, one nation, one language".

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  • National Movements in Asia and Africa1915 – 1948

    From the Hussein–McMahon correspondence to the founding of Israel — three decades in which India, West Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa, swept up in the tide of self-determination after the First World War, pressed toward independence and modernization