Sumpah Pemuda
October 28, 2005 - Posted in Online Education
The Young Indonesians’ Oath (Sumpah Pemuda) is a declaration that came out of a meeting attended by organizers of various associations based on ethnicities. They agreed to merge themselves into one new body named Young Indonesia (Indonesia Muda), a proper name since a good chunk of the members were literally young — in their late teenage years and early twenties.
They swore that from now on they would uphold ‘one country, one nation, one language: Indonesia’; thence nationalism was formally born.
Indonesians recall this event as the deed of the ‘Class of 1928′. It is commemorated on October 28th every year.
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October 30th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
[...] At the first Youth Nationalist Convention they all pledge together ‘one country, one nation, one language: Indonesia’, a pledge that has become the first milestone and practically gives birth to nationalism. [...]
June 3rd, 2006 at 11:55 am
…. “came out of a meeting attended by organizers of various associations”…
Where (the name of the place or town) did the meeting take place?