SEJARAH ROMUSHA

but even though they only get that much salary Wak

these Musa people feel a little

happy because at least our hard work is

appreciated but in the end what W

waak Hi asalamualaikum warahmatullahi

wabarakatuh Thank you for clicking

this video Okay W so on this Wednesday night

as usual I will return to

tell a historical story

about the Japanese occupation in Indonesia

especially about the implementation of

forced labor called the spirit of Musa

maybe some of you have

heard that when Japan came

to Indonesia, Japan claimed

to be an older brother and was very kind

to our people, right Wak

but it turns out that kindness was indeed like

that at first but in

the end it didn't

last long because Japan began to

implement rules that were

very inhumane to the

Indonesian people including those

who were appointed as romusha, you could

say Wak this Japan is cruel to

romusha, so are you curious about the

full story Why suddenly there is the spirit of

Musa and what did the

Japanese do to the people of the spirit of Musa without

further ado let's just go into

the story check it out

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Okay Wak before I discuss

further about Romusa history I

want to explain first about the beginning of the

arrival of Japanese colonialists to Indonesia,

so the arrival of Japan to

Indonesia began in 1937

when all countries in the world

were hit by an economic crisis from

the many countries that suffered

losses due to the crisis,

unexpectedly, it turned out that Japan was actually

successful in anticipating lives where

at that time Japan managed to develop an

economic strategy

very well so that they, the

Japanese, could survive in the midst of the

economic crisis so when many

other countries were experiencing an

economic downturn, right Well,

Japan's condition was safe, Beb, he, well,

in the midst of that situation, Japan

knew that Oh, Indonesia, which at

that time was still under

Dutch colonialism, was one of the

countries experiencing the worst monetary crisis at

that time, right Even though at the

same time Japan also saw that

Indonesia was a country that

had enormous natural resource potential,

Wak, where at that time

Japan often imported various

commodities from Indonesia's natural wealth,

n That's what Wak

encouraged Japan to come to

Indonesia in 1938 and provide

very large investment funds to

be able to save the

Indonesian economy, it is said and fyi

the funds were indeed given Wak, only

handed over to Dutch government because

at this time Indonesia

was under Dutch control, right? They

were given

investment funds, investment funds, aid funds, something

like that. Ha, that's the term.

After coming directly to Indonesia,

Japan was even more amazed, Wak,

because Indonesia's natural resources were indeed

abundant, this time far exceeding

their initial expectations. That's where

Japan's desire to control Indonesia finally arose, but at

that time, it was only a

desire, it hadn't reached the

stage of action. Then, several years

later, Wak, Japan began to realize

that the Dutch government, which was still

colonizing Indonesia, was

in the opposite camp to

its country, opposite to Japan.

What I mean is that at that time, Japan

was a member of the Axis bloc, a

country that was really fighting the Allies,

while the Netherlands was part of the

Allied bloc itself, and as

we know, these two blocs were hostile to each other, right? The

Axis bloc and the

Allied bloc, so in this situation, Japan

was clearly disadvantaged. Why? Because, as I

said earlier, Wak, Japan had already

started to cooperate with the Netherlands, by

providing

investment funds and they had also

established import-import relations. Right,

when all the countries in the world

were in crisis, that was when

Japan thought, "Ehalah, why did I

help save your economy?

Why are you joining in and making

enemies of me? It's like you helped me, you did

n't enter the checkpoint, I entered the

checkpoint. Well, on the other hand, the

Dutch government apparently did

n't want to have any more relations with Japan,

even though they had helped them. This

happened because Japan suddenly

destroyed the American military base

in Perherber on December 7,

1941, even though America was a friend of the

Netherlands, right? In the Allied block, they were in the

same checkpoint, they were in the same checkpoint. The

Netherlands also joined in. Maker,

I don't need to cooperate

with Japan anymore, as long as they fight

my friend. Which is America, then I

will fight them too, that's what the

Dutch said. And then, finally, the

Dutch colonial government, through the Governor

General named Charda Van

Starkenberkwa, finally officially

declared war on Japan.

Oh, Japan was challenged like that, so

Japan responded back. Japan finally

responded to the declaration of war

by sending its troops to the

Tarakan region. Tarakan East Kalimantan

on January 11, 1942 Oh, why did

Japan really want to go to war, Wak, through

Tarakan, well, it turns out that Japan is

quite strong militarily here, Wak, in just one

day they have succeeded in

controlling Tarakan and several

other regions in Indonesia, including Maluku,

Kalimantan, and Sumatra, well,

Japan's success in controlling these regions

made Japan even more determined

to overthrow Dutch rule in

Indonesia, so they

really targeted the island of Java, wa, because that's

where the center of the

Dutch government was located, if you want to defeat the

Dutch, it means we have to

paralyze the center of government, said

the Japanese, Well, long story short, Japan

finally sent its troops

to the island of Java, and on March 5,

1942, Japan succeeded in capturing Batavia,

which was the center of the Dutch colonial government,

because the center of government

was already controlled by Japan, so automatically the

Dutch position was under pressure here,

Japan realized that the Dutch were under

pressure, wa, finally

on March 8, 1942, Japan

invited the Dutch to meet, this was in the

Kalijati Subang area of ​​West Java,

Japan met with the Dutch, right at

that time, e The Japanese said, Hey, Netherlands,

All your colonies have been successful

I can

do what else do you want now he said and

because the Dutch could not do anything

anymore Wa He finally surrendered

unconditionally to Japan ah that's where the

Dutch surrendered and after the Dutch

surrendered to Japan then the Dutch

were obliged to hand over Indonesia to

Japan This means what the

Dutch colonialism in Indonesia is fixed is over

wa Indonesia has changed hands to the

hands of Japan F wa because the agreement

was made in Kalijati w then

this agreement is also known as the

Kalijati agreement dah take over and

after the agreement was decided wa

Governor General of the Netherlands si charda Van

starkenburg earlier together with Lieutenant

General Henry terporten commander of the

Dutch Armed Forces in Java

finally carried out the official handover of

Indonesian territory to General

hitoshi Imamura as a representative of

Japan dahah that's up to here fikwa

Indonesia changed hands and is now

under Japanese control

like that that's the short story Well,

that's Wa after successfully controlling

Indonesia Japan also began to launch

various propaganda in order to

attract the sympathy of the Indonesian people at

that time well one of the propaganda

is that Japan claimed itself

as that was the elder brother of

Indonesia we are still brothers

brothers we are all

from Asia he said well

that propaganda W can be said to be successful

because because Japan received a

good welcome from the Indonesian people at

that time at that time the Indonesian people

thought that Japan had

saved them from

Japanese colonialism which had indeed lasted

for 3 and a half centuries, that's

hundreds of years and besides that W the

Indonesian people increasingly believed

in Japan when they linked

the arrival of Japan with the prophecy of

King Joyoboyo King Jayabaya who came

from the Kediri Kingdom where

the prophecy said that a yellow-skinned nation would come

who would expel the

white-skinned nation that was the prophecy ah that

prophecy was then assumed

by the Indonesian people at that time

that the yellow-skinned nation

referred to by Joyobohyo was Japan

while the white-skinned nation who was the

Netherlands wa So what I mean here is that

Japan is the one who will save

Indonesia from Dutch colonialism which is

believed by the Indonesian people Wak at

first it was like that but it

turns out that the arrival of Japan which was

initially thought to be able to free the

product eh product also freed the product

wrongly freed the Indonesian people

from the cruelty of the Dutch colonialists waak

It turned out that it was just a

mere fantasy why Because without them

this Japanese suspect actually colonized

Indonesia many times more cruelly

than the Dutch colonialists before Wak

one of the most cruelties that

felt the most this is the implementation of romusha

ah curious with the complete story of

our new romusa Mas, come in, so

waak, the story about the history of

this romusa began in 1942,

where at that time Japan was defeated

by the allied bloc in the Coral Sea which is

located in the Pacific Ocean, Japan lost

here and this defeat

was the first defeat experienced

by Japan, right, Japan has

never lost, right Wow,

now finally lost,

Japan's defeat, that's what Wak made the

allied countries invade

Japan's territory, one of which

is us, Indonesia, and the arrival of the

allies to Indonesia, which

now turned around, made Japan

increasingly squeezed in Indonesia, therefore

Japan began to change its

war strategy, waak, from initially attacking

to defending and to

defend its colonial territory, wiis,

Indonesia, Japan began to recruit

young Indonesians to join

an organization called the

People's Power Center and you know, Wa

eh, the leaders of this Putra organization

are important people

known as the four musketeers. Do you still

remember Ken Hah, first Soekarno,

second Muhammad Hatta, third Kia Hajar

Dewantara and fourth k.i ha Mas Mansur,

these four musketeers, well, these four figures

were asked by Japan to

devote their thoughts and energy

to the interests of the war against the allies

later but wa As time went by

these four figures refused to

help Japan Yes of course at that time

they thought Why would I help

you fight the allies I'd rather invite

my own people to gain

independence said Mr. Serangkai Yes too well

Japan who knew about this

finally disbanded the

Putrawa organization because it was considered that

this organization was not useful for our country

for Japan that we also lost

to insiders like that

Well after Putra was disbanded Wak

Japan also created a new organization

called Jawa h kokai or the

Javanese Youth Association the organization Wak was

led directly by the Japanese government

earlier the leaders were

Indonesian figures who were four musketeers but

now they don't trust him anymore

that's why even though the name was the Javanese Youth Association,

Japan itself still led it

and also actually Even though there was a

Javanese name in the group earlier Jawa

Hokokai but its members were not

only Javanese, there were

Chinese and Arabs too and

their age was at least 14 years old Enter

this Jawa hokoka now Jawa hokoka was

formed to be tasked with collecting the

people's harvest which would later be

used ee for Japan to fight the

allies, the Java Hokokai was formed,

right, but even though it had been formed,

it turned out that Japan still felt unsafe

from allied attacks, eh,

our organization is lacking, especially at the end of

1943, Wak, the conditions of the Keedu World War,

increasingly cornered Japan's position. That

's what made Japan rack its

brains again, oh, how

can we get

more troops? Well, from

there, the idea arose to recruit

natives to become members of the

military called the homeland defenders' map

and In addition, Wak, Japan also

formed a youth group called

seninendan and keibodan to be able to

help the police and also maintain the

security of their respective villages from

allied attacks that could come

there at any time, you know, several were built.

Moreover, the group is like it's

complete, there are

military troops, there are police, there are also

like security for each region, ahah, for

other people who are not members of the

senendan and kebodan maps, they are

asked to become a

romusha, the rest, make romusa a

Japanese word, but before I tell you

more about romusawa, I have to

starting it by giving a little

information about the spirit of Moses which is no

less important so according to the

Big Indonesian Dictionary or KBBI wa

rohusa is a term for

people who do

manual labor during the Japanese occupation Wak yes

so here it is necessary to remember that the spirit of Moses

is a term for the person

not the activity yes that's all for now

let's understand together agree continue now the

people who became romusa Wak were

mostly taken by the Japanese from the

farmer class and also young people of

productive age and the requirements to become

romusa were healthy men

and aged around 14 to 45

years at that time the Japanese invaders

recruited ROM Musa in two ways namely

in a subtle way and a harsh way the

subtle way Aak the Japanese would

lure the people that they

would get decent wages and food

again In addition they also

motivated the Indonesian people by

calling them economic heroes at that time

the Japanese said come on come on do you want to

be an economic hero if you want Come

join us be the spirit of Moses

he said that was the subtle way the harsh way

Do you know of course the Japanese would

use force Wak Where they

pressured the regents, sub-district heads and

village heads to collect

their people so that they can be made into the spirit of Moses

Japan is threatening you Wak you are obliged to

hand over the young men from

your residence to help us yes

if it fails then I will not

hesitate to take your lives

in exchange that's

what I wanted to say earlier right I

forgot I was the village officials who were

threatened Wak Well hearing that yes

these village officials became afraid

too finally they were

forced to invite the young men in

their area to become part of the

romusha and it turns out that this method Yes it

can be said to be quite effective because the

young men were finally willing to

become romusha also is threatened

Nadan here thousands of young men and

farmers who will be made into the spirit of

Moses have gathered a lot W if

earlier there was a map as a military force

senendan and kembodan this is as a

supervisor or security well then this ROM

Musa was collected for what for

what they became this spirit of Musa was formed to

be workers who were tasked with building

infrastructure such as highways runways harbors

railway bridges

and other infrastructure projects

wa the purpose of what so

that Japan could withstand attacks

from the Allies who would come to attack

so if for example the infrastructure is

adequate automatically Japan will It's

easier to fight against the allies

who suddenly come later, right ahah

That's why the formula was built wa

at first these formulas worked

in places that were not far from

their homes wa for example romusa from

Batav, yes, their work was only in Batavia,

but over time the Japanese invaders also

began to send them to work

outside the city, not only outside the city, but

also abroad to Myanmar I

to Malaysia to Thailand to Vietnam and

By the way, at that time the

areas mentioned

were also areas under Japanese control,

that's why they were happy to throw

people to those countries and

you know the formulas that were brought

abroad were also brought in an

inhumane way,

our first president, Mr. Soekarno, once

said that these romusa were

transported in tightly closed carriages

and crowded together inside waak

one carriage could hold

hundreds of people, can you imagine,

they must have fought for oxygen until

it was true W until finally

many of them

died during the journey before they arrived

and died Wak so

it is known that out of 1500 people who were sent

abroad that's all that's left is only

about hundreds of people the rest

died on the road later When they arrived

abroad waak these rumusa who

survived began to be forced to

build various kinds of infrastructure

again one of which is what is the

construction of a railway called

kancanaburi which connects the

territory of Thailand with the territory of Myanmar

and By the way W the construction of

this kancan buun rail yes kancara Ah kancanaabri

the construction of this kancarabri rail W can be

said to be a kind of phenomenal project

why Because at that time romusa

from Indonesia built the rail

together with various romusa from

other countries which were also colonized by

Japan so not only romusa from

Indonesia but also from other countries

also joined there during the construction of the

railway waak these romusa

were forced to work continuously without

rest In addition these romusa were

also not given food and drinks that were

suitable for consumption wa as a result

they were attacked by various diseases

such as diarrhea cholera and also malaria and

By the way Wak that's only the romusa who were

sent to Myanmar wak yes So then

what is the fate of the romusa who were in

other places at the same time

the romusha in

Indonesia who are in Indonesia Ha

that is a Myanmar project, yes, just a Myanmar project,

but the ones in Indonesia still

experience exactly the same oppression

Sir, they are both forced to

work hard to build infrastructure

for the benefit of Japan against

its allies without being paid properly

before, Wak, these romusa were promised

to get a wage of 0.40 gen

or the equivalent of 40 cents and the wage

is a very, very small figure

where according to historical records, the wage

was 0.40 that could only buy

one banana, that was their wage,

but even though they only got that wage, Wak,

these R Musa felt a little happy

because at least our hard work was

appreciated, but in the end, what, Wak, the

wages that were already small were

only black and

white, Hoa, deception, not liquid,

in reality, Wak, these ROM Musa

did not get a penny from

Japan, let alone placed far from

home, these rumusa also did not

get what was their right, they were

not given proper food, eh

Astagfirullahalazim Poor them, they did

not get a decent place to live, they were not

given care even though they being

attacked by an infectious disease plus

their workload, oh my God, was really heavy, right?

Wow, the

suffering experienced by the R Musa

at that time was really heavy, ha, we are lucky to be

living in the Merd era. eka Wak did

we have time to become romusa too I think

the suffering is even more

sad because there are so many

spirits of Moses who died

while carrying out their duties to

build infrastructure

ordered by Japan and besides

bringing bad impacts to the romusa

themselves wa the implementation of romusa also

brought bad impacts to the

Indonesian people in general so it's not just the

romusa themselves who are tortured

Indonesia too how come n he ah

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come in Well so W the impact

resulting from the practice of the spirit of Moses

includes many factors at once starting

from economic factors health factors and

also educational factors I will explain this

briefly one by one yes let

's start from what was the

first factor economic factors or

economic impacts the first impact most

felt by the Indonesian people due to

the implementation of romusa is the impact in the

economic sector as I said

earlier Wa these romusa are mostly

farmers right well that

turned out to have a

very big impact Wak where the land

eh pert agricultural land was

not taken care of right

all people were employed as romusa so

what the Indonesian people also

experienced scarcity of food and

because these food ingredients become scarce

automatically the price of food also becomes

expensive as a result, what are the people Can't

afford to buy it, only the

rich can buy it, that's the

second economic impact, the

health impact of the implementation of this romusa

also has a big impact on

health wa By the way,

this impact is actually still related to the

economic impact that I just explained

Well, because the price of food needs

becomes very expensive, finally the people are

forced to eat food that is not

nutritious, according to a

historical record W these people are forced to eat

banana stems, papaya leaves, even

snails to fill their stomachs Yes,

what else but they die

of hunger and because the food

consumed by these people is

food that is random So it

clearly has a fatal impact on

their health, the Indonesian people at that time

were known to be attacked by various diseases

such as starting from trivial diseases such as

beriberi or vitamin B deficiency

to itching diseases and

In addition, they were also known to

suffer from chronic diseases such as

meningitis and also inflammation of the

meninges, poor thing, right? Third,

the impact on education, well, besides having an impact

on the economic and health sectors, the

implementation of romusa also had an

impact on education How could it be

like that Nat Well, because there were

many times farmers who

were employed as romusha, the

children of the farmers dropped

out of school, right? The children

had to help their families

earn a living and replace

their fathers who were being

used as the spirit of Moses by the Japanese, right?

And besides that reason, young people

who were still students, like 14

to 18 years old, lost

their learning opportunities because they were

forced to become what to become the spirit of

Moses. At least 14 years old, they

entered straight away, right? And because all

these children and young people were busy

working to earn a living or

working as romusha,

many schools were

forced to close due to a lack of students.

So it can be said that

the implementation of romusha also had a

very big impact on the decline in the

quality of education in

Indonesia. It had an impact on everyone, right?

So that was the history of romusha and the

twists and turns of its journey under

Japanese occupation that we managed to

summarize. Even though Japan

only colonized Indonesia for 3 years, right?

But what they did

clearly left a very

deep wound for the nation. Indonesia of the

many atrocities committed by the

Japanese invaders wa the implementation of the spirit of Moses

is one of the activities that

claimed the most victims is it not

sad to hear like this waak they

were forced to work hard until they were sick and even

died without being paid a penny

how could that be true Japan was in its old age

yes that cruelty clearly formed a

wound that will never dry up

and will continue to leave a mark in the hearts of the

Indonesian people hopefully

this kind of invaders will never happen again

in this world Wak yes I suddenly

remembered the words in the

1945 Constitution that colonialism in the

world must be abolished because it is not

in accordance with humanity and

justice n I agree with that part indeed

don't be complacent you don't have to

wait for the invaders to make rifles

now there are already many invaders in

Indonesia this is colonizing your own nation

man metamit already don't want to

talk too much I What do you think

wa surely many of you

know more information

about ROM Musa that I didn't mention in

this video you can add it in the

comments column below and if for example

you have a different opinion or also

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