International Focus Magazine Vol. 3, #10 | Page 18

seen on the scene
The 73rd Anniversary of
Indonesia’s Independence
On Friday October 19, 2018, the Indo-
nesian Consulate-Houston celebrated
its 73rd Anniversary of Independence.
Indonesia had been a Dutch colony for
over 300 years when a group of revo-
lutionaries declared independence on
August 17, 1945. It took Indonesians
four years of diplomacy and armed
struggle before their independence was
formally granted by Queen Juliana of
the Netherlands. Despite the granting
of independence in 1945, it wasn’t un-
til 2005, that the Netherlands declared
that they had decided to accept the date
of 17 August 1945 as the date of In-
donesia’s independence. Indonesia is an
archipelago of over 17,000 islands. It is
the world’s fourth most populous coun-
try. On this auspicious occasion, the
Consul General Nana Yuliana stressed
that this anniversary of Independence
should be a momentum for all fabric
of the nation to continue working and
building the nations.
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