A Significant 73 Years
If only there were sentinel satellites over Indonesian skies, their sensors would have caught people belting out the national anthem, “Indonesia Raya” (Great Indonesia), throughout the archipelago.
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Children of the Tengger Tribe put up red-and-white flags during a Scouts Day Ceremony to welcome Indonesian Independence Day on Mount Bromo in Sukapura district, Probolinggo regency, East Java, Tuesday (14/8/2018). The ceremony was marked by hoisting 2,018 red-and-white flags and pledging to maintain the sovereignty of Indonesia.
If only there were sentinel satellites over Indonesian skies, their sensors would have caught people belting out the national anthem, “Indonesia Raya” (Great Indonesia), throughout the archipelago.
We acknowledge that the patriotic song and its poetic lyrics, written and composed by WR Supratman and first played publicly in 1928 at the Second Youth Congress, is truly visionary. Supratman once said that he had a feeling his song would be chosen one day as the national anthem, although he passed away seven years before independence was proclaimed.