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236:) following two deadlocked votes. In the third round, General Oerip had 21 votes to Soedirman's 22. Divisional commanders from Sumatera, who had voted unanimously, swayed the vote in Sudirman's favour; Urip had lost votes because some of the division leaders distrusted his history with the KNIL and the oath he had taken to the Dutch motherland upon graduation. Although Soedirman was surprised at his selection and offered to surrender the leadership position to Oerip, the meeting did not allow it; he himself was glad to no longer be in charge of the armed forces. Soedirman kept Oerip, by then a lieutenant general, to serve as chief of staff of the armed forces. While Soedirman remained unconfirmed, Urip remained 22: 213: 171:
Indies. Urip had originally suggested using Purwokerto for his headquarters, but ultimately Yogyakarta was chosen as it had better facilities and guaranteed support from the local ruler. He departed for Yogyakarta on 16 October, and arrived the following day. He first established the general headquarters in a room at Hotel Merdeka, which he used until the Sultan of Yogyakarta
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commands. He took confiscated Japanese weapons from well-equipped forces and distributed them as needed. However, the results were less successful than he had hoped. PETA had been organised locally during the Japanese occupation, and as such its members were unable to accept a centralised leadership.
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On 14 October, General Oerip officially received his interim appointment and left immediately for Jakarta. In a cabinet meeting the following day, he was ordered to build a national armed forces headquartered in Yogyakarta, in preparation for an expected assault by Dutch troops coming to reclaim the
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in Breda, The Netherlands and were commissioned into that force. However, these officers were poorly received by Indonesian nationalists, who viewed them as mercenaries for having served in the Dutch forces. Although Oerip set out a command structure, in reality the army's hierarchy was provisional
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When General Soedirman was approved on 18 December, he began working to consolidate and unite the armed forces. Meanwhile, Oerip handled day-to-day organisational and technical issues. Many of the details, such as company uniforms, he left to regional commanders. However, to deal with more
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declared himself Minister of Defence. As such, Oerip had little oversight and felt pressured to quickly establish a stable command structure, while also began to form the a high command structure for the armed services, and later moved the general HQ to
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from landing, he passed edicts that applied nationally.Together, Soedirman and Oerip were instrumental to unite the differences between armed forces personnel who served in both sides of the Second World War and were now united under one armed service.
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The historian Amrin Imran suggests that Soeprijadi's appointment may have been a way to see if he was still alive; it may have been thought that he would have certainly contacted the government in Jakarta to take over this post if he
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donated land and a building to be utilized as the General Headquarters of the young armed forces. On 20 October, when learning that Soeprijadi was declared missing Imam Muhammad Suliyoadikusumo was appointed by the cabinet as
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commander; however, the Indonesian journalist Salim Said writes that his orders were at times unintelligible owing to Urip's poor command of Indonesian and often ignored unless approved by Soedirman.
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The INAF traces its origins to the 5 October 1945 declaration of the formation of an active national armed forces for the republic by no less than the first Vice President of Indonesia,
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Urip was fluent in Dutch and Javanese, but had a poor command of Indonesian, which had gained mainstream currency in the early 20th century.
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or revolutionaries later on, while many of its officer corps who served in either of the two were trained as cadets of the RNEIA in the
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for the infant republic, originally planned as a national army. The job of activating a national military fell on the hands of ex-
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Each of these sub-commanders was commissioned into the rank of major general. Oerip also began appropriating weapons to different
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At the time, the Indonesian National Armed Forces did not have the resources to enforce a standard uniform nationwide.
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One of Oerip's final orders as Commander of the Armed Forces was to create a national navy, to that effort the
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Oerip Soemohardjo : Lieutenant General of the TNI (22 February 1893 – 17 November 1948)
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was elected as commander of the TKR on 12 November 1945. He kept Urip as his chief of staff.
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Oerip Soemohardjo : Letnen Jenderal TNI (22 Februari 1893 – 17 November 1948)
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Genesis of Power: General Sudirman and the Indonesian Military in Politics, 1945–49
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On 12 November 1945, at the first general meeting of army leadership, Colonel
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Military units and formations of Indonesia in the Indonesian War of Independence
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General Directorate of Aviation of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
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Deputy Chief of Military Aviation: Group Captain Soekarmen Martodisoemo
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Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and Resistance, 1944–1946
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On 2 November, the ground forces of the nascent INAF, the future
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Commanding General of the People's Safety Armed Forces: Gen
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Order of battle of the armed forces as of 8 January 1946
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and depended heavily on the strength of local units.
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Minister of Defence, later on the guerrilla leader
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Indonesian National Armed Forces
Mohammad Hatta
Sukarno
People's Security Agency
gendarmerie
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
Oerip Soemohardjo
Soeprijadi
Defenders of the Homeland
Heiho
Koninklijke Militaire Academie
Hamengkubuwono IX
Moestopo
Purwokerto
Indonesian Army
TKR
A man in a peci, looking straight forward
Soedirman
Soedirman
Purwokerto
military police
paratroopers
Indonesian Navy
Mas Pardi
Mohammad Nazir
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