Japanese Samurai :who contributed to Indonesian independence

Do you know a song that Indonesians have sung for fifty years?
It is called the "PETA March".
PETA means Homeland Defense Volunteer Army in Indonesian.
"Asia rose against its enemy.
They have sacrificed themselves and tried their best.
To destroy the United Nations Army, they sacrificed their own lives.
March forward!
PETA.
You are the hero of Asia and Indonesia.
May God bless holy Asia.
Old Asia has struggled with their unhappy history.
We suffered from tyranny many years.
The Great Japan stood up to the tyrants, saved Asia and protected us all.
March forward!
PETA.


You are the hero of Asia and Indonesia...."
Why Indonesian people sang about sung "The Great Japan"?
Frankly, when Japan made inroads into colonial Indonesia, its people got a chance to their independence from the Netherlands' colony.
Indonesians have believed that as Asians, a colored race, they could not escape from the Caucasian's dominance by the Dutch's cruel and systematic colonial policies.
However, suddenly the Japanese, smaller than Caucasians, came to Indonesia and the Dutch Army totally surrendered after only nine days.
The Japanese had the same body color and hair color and they beat the white people instantly.
Indonesians saw this fact and believed they too can do that.
They now had the courage to do so.
The Japanese were welcomed by the Indonesians.
Let's take a look at a history textbook for the 9th grade students in Indonesia:
"The Japanese occupation left great merits to influence our history.
First of all, Japanese prohibited the speaking of Dutch and/or English language.
Hence, Indonesian language grew and spread throughout the country.
During the three and a half years of Japanese occupation, the Indonesian language improved marvelously.
Secondly, the Japanese provided military training to young Indonesians.
Prior to this, they used poor weapons of bamboo spears and wooden model rifle guns.
However, Indonesians were taught by the strict Japanese military discipline and trained to fight bravely and to not surrender easily.
Thirdly, the Japanese gave us a higher position because Dutch was gone from part of our country, especially the working place.
They trusted us and left important assignments with responsibilities."

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[TectonicPower]

Widespread looting in occupied territories (valuable goods from banks, depositories, temples, churches, mosques, museums, businesses, private homes, etc.) was organized on a massive scale by official secret organization called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) headed by Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother.

Mass raped by Japanese soldiers in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, where some victims were pre-menstruating girls.

[tenacioustaut]

@RogerNetherlands

The British demanded Japan NOT TO give weapons to the Indonesians

in order to prevent the Indonesians from gaining independence from the Dutch.

[antimassgomi]

@bowwwo

What you learns is not real history.

[Londo271]

@55MikuHatsune Do you also know how many Indonesians were killed,raped and used as slaves during the war? Women and also young girls were used as sex-slaves,etc,etc. Also the famine the Indonesians endured during the war because of the Japanese. I'm not anti-Japanese, these are just the facts.

[bowwwo]

@kurnie17 We learned that history at school and believe me, most Indonesian not effected by that fact.

Because we're living in this era not in the past...

Japanese did cruel things to us back then. But they are now become really big help for our country. many Japanese invest their money to Indonesia, and Japanese gov provide us scholarship to study in their country!

[Saranyaaful]

Japan does not 'gave' independence to Indonesia

Well, Japan does intended to do that

But Indonesia refuse it, and decided to have 'independence' with their own power

And well, we all have a happy ending!

[Zovlanov]

@RogerNetherlands wie is dit? ik ben in nederland gewonnen hebben :p hup hup holland hup!

[RogerNetherlands]

@tenacioustaut

You can read everything in the files of the UN, both parties broke promises, both parties killed a lot of innocent civilians and in the end there is no United States of Indonesia and a lot of people had to flee out of the country to the Netherlands . The times of colonization were over, the profits of Dutch East Indies was at that time at a lowpoint, it was the time of the 'Ethische politiek' wich was the first start of independence, also rembember november 1926!

[RogerNetherlands]

@Zovlanov

Read a book

[RogerNetherlands]

@tenacioustaut

Not to prevent the Indonesians from gaining independence, but to secure the safety of the Britisch and Amarican civilians, still in the camps at that time, during the Bersiap thousands of civilians died, to prevent more dead people. The Americans were anti colonial, but were no party in the battle, but indirect supported the Dutch military by Marshall help, but stopped if the Dutch didn't end the fightings.

The Japanese only used the Indonesian people for their war.

[nec0murav0]

こうした事実をもっと多くの日本人に知ってもらいたい。

良いとか悪いとかではなく。日本にはこのような人たちがいたのだ­なあということを。

受験のための歴史勉強だけではつまらないよ。

[osam1122]

@Londo271

you know nothing, for us Japanese ,Malay , Indonesian language is the easiest language to master. It is believed that Japanese and Malay , Indonesian have the same roots.