grace Susetyo a trip to the end takes over where the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno was between 1934 -1938 banished. President Sukarno used his time playing on the island and poetry writing with hidden meanings, to meditate on his vision of an independent Indonesia.
It had been 10 days that I had been walking up and down the mountains of Flores cool when I felt the warm breeze on my face, while the proud mountain Wongge beholding of my motel window. In this coastal town surrounded by mountains, I had been looking forward to meeting the womb that conceived the nation of Indonesia.
I first heard of the end in my elementary school history classes. Sukarno, later the first president of Indonesia, was in exile in 1934-1938 because his political activities were considered a threat to the Dutch East Indies government. I imagined that would end a romantic place that Sukarno writing passionate letters, poems and plays inspired.
When I walked the beaches in the south end of the island, I felt the grains of black volcanic sand on my bare feet and the waves of clear blue-green water on my legs. Children swimming and paddling their canoes on my camera with a big smile exclaimed. It was rehearsed on the shores of these beaches exercising Sukarno locals in dramatic vocal exercises as they ruled the father of the dreams of a future sovereign Indonesia by Indonesians.
It would be easy for a travel writer, this place call the cliché "piece of heaven". But in the late 1930s was anything but that for Sukarno.
Tugu Pancasila
In the mid-1930s, with a population of only 5,000, the end was considered a primitive land of the Indies, where Sukarno and his family foreign Javanese foreign speaking in the country of end-Lio people would. It was at least a boat ride on the European-educated Javanese-Malay elites month away in fiery discourse on independence in Batavia (Jakarta) engages. The intensive contact with them
would have been crucial to Sukarno political work. At that time the only way to keep in contact would be through letters that would take months to reach Java and back to Flores.
In other words, the exile was over one of the Netherlands Government attempts to abort conception of the Republic of Indonesia.
Sukarno use his four years here made meditation on his vision for an independent Indonesia and engage the locals in to participate. To connect to their level, Sukarno wrote a dozen plays and the club Toneel Kelimutu established that. At the Immaculata Building
"conducted locals involved in productions when Sukarno asked permission from the local community who use Immaculata building, the Dutch priests were responsible concern for the community that Sukarno locals would indoctrinate his ideas of nationalism" said Maria Marietta Bali, lecturer of Indonesian literature and theater in Universitas Flores, end. A friend of Sukarno assured the anxious priests that Sukarno activities would be harmless and under responsible supervision.
Indonesia 1945 , a then futuristic fiction piece about the Pacific War and the rise of Japan's uprising against the US and Britain, accurately predicted Indonesia's independence in 1945
another game Dr. Sjaitan , tells of a mad scientist who bring to life capable of dead organisms back through the heart of another living organism transplanting. 17 km from the end, eight parts of a robot and thousands of pieces of shrapnel found. To bring the destroyed robots back to life, it must be connected to the 45 electric poles, which must be wired and capture energy from the Great Lightning.
"The shrapnel between the many islands makes Indonesia scattered oceans. The lightning symbolizes God. When a nation in suspended animation the power of God receives as this robot receives power, it may rise to the life and come back" explains Bali the Frankenstein-inspired game. She added that 17km, 8 parts and 45 poles Indonesia's independence date August 17, 1945 prophesied, although this was never written explicitly in the script.
During his exile in the end, Sukarno and his family lived on Jalan Perwira. Your house is now known as situs Pengasingan Soekarno, a national heritage museum run by former friends of Sukarno family. The museum goods used during his stay in the end owned by Sukarno. Visitors to the museum have reported pleasant visits Sukarno conception of the Republic of Indonesia in the uterus in memories, the end is
by old photographs, newspaper clippings, oration quotes and vintage exhibits.
Pantai Naganesa
Unfortunately, I missed it, during my visit to enter the house in the end because the caretaker of the museum decided not for the weekend to show for the work. The neighbors did not have his number. After a Endenese acquaintance who is related to him, the caretaker is a low-wage, paid by the hour worker who takes his boat still fishing for a living.
came I expected to end romantic encounter going down memory lane
, the me euphoric burst of last century Indonesian dreams give. Instead, I spent the afternoon for the absent museum caretaker in a mediocre warung wait Padang whose staff were busy watching a sappy sinetron (soap opera).
to see how some Indonesians today seem to respect other Indonesians to fight, who are different from them, like people, I find it embarrassing that Sukarno vision to unite from the last century Indonesia replaced in favor of cheap soap operas can be soaked loaded with fake drama and palm oil, high cholesterol, spicy curries.
on the other hand, positive developments in Sukarno's memorials have taken in the end. Since the middle of Yayasan Bung Karno in cooperation with the end regency receives government Immaculata building is currently being renovated. When I visited in December 2013, the building was badly damaged and infested with wild vines.
This year, the production 'Universitas Flores Dr. Sjaitan had to be carried out in a small tent in the streets outside Immaculata building. The production was performed in honor of Sukarno 102nd birthday and attended by then Vice President Boediono. "We look forward to meet the new Immaculata-building in the future, and Sukarno memorials better cared to see," Bali said.
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