< ![CDATA[The War for Independence: 1945 to 1950
August 1945
August 7 BPUPKI renames itself to PPKI: Panitia Persiapan Kemerdekaan Indonesia (preparatory committee for Indonesia’s independence -ed.).
August 9 Sukarno, Hatta, and Radjiman Wediodiningrat are flown by the Japanese to Vietnam to meet with Marshal Terauchi. There they are informed of the collapse of Japanese forces, and that >