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 , which was submitted as a petition to Queen Wilhelmina and the Estates General of the Netherlands.^[1]^[2]^[3] The document expressed 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The petition, which was passed by a majority of the Volksraad, had six signatories, including Soetardjo himself, , I. J. Kasimo, Ko Kwat Tiong Sia, Sam Ratulangi and .^[1]

On November 16, 1938, the petition was rejected 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. It led to the formation of the GAPI in 1939.

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Abeyasekere, Susan (April 1973). "The Soetardjo Petition" (PDF). Indonesia. 15 (15): 81–107. doi:10.2307/3350793. ISSN 0019-7289. JSTOR 3350793.
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.
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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