“Revolusi”: David Van Reybrouck writes about the Indonesian struggle for independence

Two days after the capitulation of Japan, after the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Indonesia declared independence. A battle with the Dutch colonizer ensued that lasted 4.5 years. The first president was Sukarno, a “communications genius” according to Van Reybrouck. He called the Bandung Conference together. “That was an incredible dynamic, a moment of hope and fraternity, of refusal to join the Cold War. That’s where the” third world “started, which didn’t want to join the first and second, neither pro-American nor pro. -Russian. More than half of the world’s population was represented there. “

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