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and training them. Singapore radio, which was then called “Hunan,” broadcast all these telegrams and their replies in Arabic and other languages, and we heard them from the station. The Indonesian ambassador in Cairo, General al-Hajj Raden Abd al-Qadir, gave me a book by a well-known Indonesian historian that included all these telegrams and efforts.

When the Second World War ended, a great revolution broke out in Indonesia against the Dutch. During it the Indonesian revolutionaries used some Japanese weapons, and the brave Indonesian people fought valiantly until they achieved independence and saved their country from the grip of long and oppressive Dutch colonialism. The British government was helping the Netherlands militarily and politically.

When negotiations took place between Indonesia and the Netherlands, the Dutch inserted a provision into the treaty requiring the independent Indonesian government to pay foreign religious missions all the allowances that the Dutch government had been paying them to support their institutions.

[image] Caption: Photograph of the English translation of Muhammad Amin al-Husayni’s letter to General Oshima.