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    Sudirman Was Born in Bodas Karangjati Village

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    Sudirman was born in 1916 in Central Java and worked as a teacher. During World War II, he trained with the Japanese-backed Peta army. After Indonesia declared independence, Sudirman organized his Peta battalion to resist the returning Dutch forces. In 1945, he led the Battle of Ambarawa against the British and Dutch. Sudirman was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Republican army in 1945 and led guerrilla actions against the Dutch over the next five years while battling tuberculosis. He died in 1950 at age 35 after leading resistance against a Dutch attack on the Republican headquarters in Yogyakarta.

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    Sudirman was born in 1916 in Central Java and worked as a teacher. During World War II, he trained with the Japanese-backed Peta army. After Indonesia declared independence, Sudirman organized his Peta battalion to resist the returning Dutch forces. In 1945, he led the Battle of Ambarawa against the British and Dutch. Sudirman was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Republican army in 1945 and led guerrilla actions against the Dutch over the next five years while battling tuberculosis. He died in 1950 at age 35 after leading resistance against a Dutch attack on the Republican headquarters in Yogyakarta.

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    Sudirman was born in 1916 in Central Java and worked as a teacher. During World War II, he trained with the Japanese-backed Peta army. After Indonesia declared independence, Sudirman organized his Peta battalion to resist the returning Dutch forces. In 1945, he led the Battle of Ambarawa against the British and Dutch. Sudirman was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Republican army in 1945 and led guerrilla actions against the Dutch over the next five years while battling tuberculosis. He died in 1950 at age 35 after leading resistance against a Dutch attack on the Republican headquarters in Yogyakarta.

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    Sudirman Was Born in Bodas Karangjati Village

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    Sudirman was born in 1916 in Central Java and worked as a teacher. During World War II, he trained with the Japanese-backed Peta army. After Indonesia declared independence, Sudirman organized his Peta battalion to resist the returning Dutch forces. In 1945, he led the Battle of Ambarawa against the British and Dutch. Sudirman was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Republican army in 1945 and led guerrilla actions against the Dutch over the next five years while battling tuberculosis. He died in 1950 at age 35 after leading resistance against a Dutch attack on the Republican headquarters in Yogyakarta.

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    Sudirman was born in Bodas Karangjati village,

    Rembang, Purbalingga, Central Java, 24 January


    1916. He studied at the Dutch Native School in
    Purwokerto, and then at a Muhammadiyah teacher
    training college in Surakarta. He worked as a
    teacher at the Muhammadiyah school in Cilacap.

    During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia


    during World War II, Sudirman trained to become a
    battalion commander in Peta, the "homeland
    defense" army promoted by the Japanese.[1] When
    Japan surrendered and Sukarno
    proclaimed Indonesian independence, he organized his
    Peta battalion into a Banyumas-based regiment of the
    Republican army to resist Dutch reoccupation of its
    former colony. The first major battle that he led was
    the Battle of Ambarawa against the British and the
    Dutch (November-December 1945).[2] On 12 December
    he led a "coordinated attack" against British positions
    in Ambarawa, driving the British all the way to
    Semarang. The battle ended on 16 December.[3]

    On 12 November 1945 he was elected Commander-in-chief of the Army, a


    position he held until his death. During much of the next five years he was
    sick with tuberculosis, but led
    several guerrilla actions against
    the Dutch.

    He led the resistance to the Dutch


    attack on Yogyakarta, then the
    Republic of Indonesia's
    headquarters, in December 1948.
    Theodore Friend (2003) describes
    him as having "...a strangely blended samurai discipline, Marxist
    disposition, and raw courage."[1]

    Sudirman died in Magelang, 29 January 1950 at


    the age of 35. He was buried in Heroes'
    Cemetery in Semaki, Yogyakarta.

    He received the title of National Hero of


    Indonesia as an Independence Defender Hero.
    Sudirman was the first and the youngest General
    in Indonesia.

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