Indonesia ’ s three watersheds
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Many countries have had, at some point in their history, watershed moments when the opportunity seems to arise to wipe the slate clean and make a new beginning. Such moments often arise after wars or after revolutions or some other political upheaval which lead to a regime change, and the chance to start afresh. Typically at such times, new policies are introduced which seek to bring about political, economic, constitutional, administrative or social change, or some combination of all these. Not infrequently, reforms which most observers would have thought impossible under the old regime are implemented with surprising rapidity and apparently with little opposition. In many parts of Asia and Africa, such a watershed moment occurred with the granting of political independence. Beginning with the decision by the American government to grant the Philippines full independence in 1946, all the major states of Asia had achieved either self-government or full political independence by 1960. The Indonesian struggle for independence began in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese capitulation to the Allied powers in August 1945. Two key leaders of the independence struggle, Sukarno and Hatta, under considerable pressure from younger, more radical activists, declared Indonesia’s independence on 17 August 1945, a date that has been enshrined as Indonesia’s national independence day ever since. But in the aftermath of this declaration, the transfer of power to an independent government in Indonesia did not take place smoothly. The Dutch officials who had fled to Australia when the Japanese armed forces swept through the archipelago in 1942 returned in the wake of the British army in the latter part of 1945. Even the more progressive among them were
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