He is also a local Principal Investigator of Surabaya in the Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network (SEANNET) program of the IIAS Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). The SpeakerĪdrian Perkasa is a PhD candidate in Leiden Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University and a Lecturer in the Department of History, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. Following research on nationalism studies, the speaker uses the perspective of nationhood from below to observe why nationalism, particularly Indonesian nationalism, became a popular affair in Surabaya during that period. This talk aims to discuss the development of the Indonesian nationalist idea in Surabaya during the 1920s to the 1940s. Then, how did the Indonesian national consciousness emerge in the kampung people of Surabaya? What did the nation mean to them? The Battle of Surabaya was fought between pro-independence Indonesian soldiers and militia against British and British Indian Troops as a part of the. However, the adult native people's literacy rate in Surabaya in a decade before this event was deficient. Even after the British forces captured Surabaya and the Dutch regained its control over this city, many hinterland people refused to supply food items to Surabaya. There were numerous youths from many kampungs (neighbourhoods) in the city involved on the Indonesian side.
The battle of Surabaya, which reached its peak in November 1945, became a national symbol of resistance. Soon after Sukarno and Hatta declared Indonesia's independence on 17 August 1945, there was a period in Indonesian official historiography known as the Indonesian national revolution.
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