Accusations fly after a secret letter was released from President Sukorno

Siena Kraft, Press Corps 21

INDONESIAN NATIONAL REVOLUTION, National Security Apparatus — Today a letter detailing a possible land trade between the President of Indonesia, Sakurno, and a Dutch business was found in the President’s private residence.

Sukarno is a part of the Republican Party and due to the past turmoil with the Dutch, high tensions arise in the tense of the Dutch. The Dutch were unable to take over Indonesia during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia as they were on the other side of the world and were struggling with funding and military. However, after Indonesia declared independence, the Dutch began to threaten Indonesia’s sovereignty with military power in the pursuit of gaining their former territory back. In order to justify this the Dutch are claiming that Indonesia’s declaration of independence is a collaboration with the Japanese and that the Republican Party is a “creation of Japanese fascism.”

After it was announced that this letter was found accusations quickly came to the surface. Tan Malaka, a part of the Republican party was one of the first to jump to accuse Sukarno. 

Malaka told us “It is important to figure out if our president is colluding with the Dutch.” Tan Malaka is a leader of the Pemuda, a group of young activists who believe in hostile takeovers as a peaceful takeover was not possible in their eyes. The Pemuda was frequently found on the front lines of the conflict between Indonesia and Japan. The youth spread their revolutionary and extreme nationalist ideas throughout Indonesia with radios, graffiti, and newspapers. Pemuda was responsible for the kidnapping of Sukarno and his right-hand man. During the kidnapping, the group pressured Sukarno into declaring independence. 

Later today Sukarno told the NAIMUN daily that he “can’t confirm or deny whether [the news] was true at the moment.”

Unfortunately, there has been no update on the situation, but Malaka launched a directive that would create an investigative team fueled with the parties teams that would be a part of congress. This team is only supposed to find facts and present them. The party intends to come up with a plan for what is to be done after the facts have been presented.