The Indonesian National Awakening is a term for the period in the first half of the 20th century, during which people from many parts of the archipelago of Indonesia first began to develop a national
Students of an Agricultural School in Tegalgondo, Central Java. ca. 1900–1940.
Delegates to the Youth Pledge, where frameworks for independent Indonesia was agreed, most importantly a common national language.
Members of Partai Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian National Party), one of the most prominent pro-Independence organisations.
Stamp of Indonesia 2008 Colnect 248187 The Beginning of National Awakening
The Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945.
Indonesian National Awakening
…were overrun in little more than a month—a blow that was to end three and a half centuries of Dutch colonial presence in Indonesia. The changes under the subsequent three-year occupation were so numerous and extraordinary that the subsequent watershed, the Indonesia Revolution, was possible in a manner unfeasible just three years earlier…
Ching Nan Shrine in Malang, East Java. One out of 11 Shinto shrines built in Indonesia.
Occupation government of West Sumatra run by the 25th Army. (Left to right: Staff officer Nishiooeda, Field Marshal Hisaichi Terauchi, General Moritake Tanabe, and Governor Yano Kenzo.)
Japanese identity card issued to Louis Victor Wijnhamer, Jr., a local Indo-European man, during the occupation.
Liberated Dutch prisoners in 1945