Soetardjo Petition
The Soetardjo Petition of 1936 was a motion of the Volksraad (a nascent legislative body) of the Dutch East Indies, instigated by the legislator Soetardjo Kartohadikusumo, which was submitted as a petition to Queen Wilhelmina and the Estates General of the Netherlands.[1][2][3] The document asked for a conference to be organized with representatives from the Indies and the Netherlands to discuss the desire of Indonesians, within a period of ten years, to be autonomous under Article 1 of the Dutch Constitution as part of a Dutch commonwealth under the Dutch Crown.[4][1][2][3]
The petition had six signatories:[5][1]
- Soetardjo (Javanese, president of Native Civil Servants Association (PPBB))
- Sam Ratulangi (Minahasan)
- Sayyid Ismail Alatas (representative of the ethnic Arab community)
- I. J. Kasimo(Javanese, president of a Catholic association)
- Ko Kwat Tiong Sia (representative of the ethnic Chinese community)
- Datoek Toemoenggoeng (Minangkabau people|Minangkabau, PPBB member)
In mid-1936, the petition was approved by the Volksraad by 26 votes to 20, with 15 abstentions. Six Indonesians voted against it (and eight abstained), but because eight Europeans supported it, the petition was approved.[6][7]
On November 16, 1938, the petition was rejected by the government in the Netherlands because it was considered that the Indonesians were not yet ready for independence, even within the Dutch commonwealth. This rejection encouraged the nationalist movement in Indonesia to be more radical.[8]
Further reading
- Soerjono and Ben Anderson (1980) On Musso's Return Indonesia, Vol. 29, (April 1980), pp. 59–90
- Kartohadikusumo, Setiadi, 1990 Soetardjo : pembuat "petisi Soetardjo" dan perjuangannya Setiadi Kartohadikusumo Pustaka Sinar Harapan, Jakarta ISBN 979-416-090-3
Notes
- ^ a b c Klinken 2003.
- ^ a b Gouda 2008.
- ^ a b Foray 2012.
- ^ Abeyasekere 1973, p. 82.
- ^ Abeyasekere 1973, p. 84.
- ^ Abeyasekere 1973, pp. 91–93.
- ^ Kahin 1952, p. 95.
- ^ Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica 1998.
References
- Abeyasekere, Susan (April 1973). "The Soetardjo Petition" (PDF). Indonesia. 15 (15): 81–107. doi:10.2307/3350793. ISSN 0019-7289. JSTOR 3350793.
- Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (July 20, 1998). "Sutardjo Petition". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Foray, Jennifer L. (2012). Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01580-7. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
- Gouda, Frances (2008). Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942. Singapore: Equinox Publishing. ISBN 978-979-3780-62-7. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
- Kahin, George McTurnan (1952). Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
- Klinken, Geert Arend van; Klinken, Gerry Van (2003). Minorities, Modernity and the Emerging Nation: Christians in Indonesia, a Biographical Approach. Leiden: KITLV Press. ISBN 978-90-6718-151-8. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
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