History of Indonesian Independence on August 17, 1945, which date and year is a special date for the people and the people of the State of Indonesia, because on August 17, 1945 the Indonesian state began to rise and rise. Indonesian state began to declare independence by the leaders and figures of the State of Indonesia namely Ir. Soekarno. and M. Hatta. Before the State of Indonesia Declared with its independence on August 17, 1945, There are many events behind the occurrence of major events that exist in the history of Indonesia.
Before the independent State of Indonesia, the Republic of Indonesia felt bitter and painful when colonized by some foreign countries. These colonies of the State of Indonesia started from Portuguese where the Portuguese were the first invaders to arrive in Malacca in 1509. This Portuguese country managed to take over Malacca on August 10, 1511 or better known as another master language, which is led by a Portuguese leader named Alfonso de Albuquerque. After controlling Malacca, the Portuguese colonial troops moved directly from Madura to Ternate. There, the people of Indonesia's population to do various kinds of resistance to the Portuguese, so that the Portuguese country retreat and take over again Sunda Kelapa. After that the name of Sunda Kelapa was changed by Fatahillah by the name of Jayakarta. The period of Portuguese colonialism ended in 1602 after the Netherlands entered into the State of Indonesia. The Netherlands entered the country of Indonesia through the area of Banten led by the Dutch leader named Cornelius de Houtman. The Dutch state came to Indonesia has its own purpose, which is to control the spice market that exist within the State of Indonesia by establishing VOC (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie) in Banten region around the year 1602. Why set up in Banten area? Because the market in Banten region is gaining rivals of British and Chinese merchants, the VOC office is moved to the South Sulawesi Island. This island of South Sulawesi to the Dutch government found the opposition from Sultan Hasanuddin. However, at that time a variety of treaties were made, and one of the agreements was the Bongaya agreement.
However, Sultan Hasanuddin disobeyed the agreed agreement and resisted the Dutch government who dared to install the VOC in the State of Indonesia, especially on the island of South Sulawesi. Finally, the Dutch colonists decided to leave South Sulawesi to find a suitable place to build the VOC office, and eventually they arrived in Yogyakarta.
Upon their arrival in Yogyakarta, the VOC immediately approached the agreement of Giyanti, in which the contents of the agreement were, the State admitted that this mangkubumi as Sultan Hamengkubuwono. The existence of this Giyanti agreement split the Mataram kingdom into the Sultanate of Sultanate and Yogyakarta Sultanate. Then the VOC Office was finally disbanded on 1 January 1800 after the Netherlands lost the war with the State of Francis.
maybe so many of this article I made just to recall the history of masalalu Indonesia ,, may be useful for us all
