The Nationalism of Giyugun Officers in South Sumatra

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10.2991/assehr.k.200130.010How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Giyugun, Japanese military administration, nationalism

Abstract

This article examined the role of Giyugun officers in maintaining Indonesia’s independence. In this discussion, the focus was on the South Sumatra region which was the basis of the Giyugun training, or voluntary army formed by the Japanese military administration in Southern Sumatra. It is interesting to study this period for the first time Sumatran youth had the opportunity to get military training from Japan. Initially, in 1943, Sumatran Giyugun was formed by Japan to help fight against the Allied forces. The military training provided by Japan was used by young people to learn war strategies, how to use weapons and various other military skills. The nationalism of the Giyugun officers was very high even though they were trained by the Japanese military. The expertise gained by the Giyugun soldiers later in the independence period was used to defend Indonesia’s independence.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Teti Hestiliani
AU  - Miftahuddin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/04
TI  - The Nationalism of Giyugun Officers in South Sumatra
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science and Character Educations (ICoSSCE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 44
EP  - 48
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200130.010
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.010
ID  - Hestiliani2020
ER  -