"People Who Capture the Indonesian Proclamation of Events"

 

 Photography is not only witness history, but also the historical evidence of human life and the events surrounding it. In the presence of a photo, many people could be reminded and made ​​aware about a thing. Frans Soemarto Mendoer very understanding about it. That's why friends 'Gate Wasps', after receiving word from a source in Japan Asia Raya newspaper that there will be a significant event in the residence of Sukarno, Frans moving directly toward the house numbered 56 in the East Pegangsaan street carrying his Leica camera. And really, that morning, Friday, August 17, 1945, an important event took place there: the reading of the proclamation of Indonesian independence by Soekarno.

 At that time Frank has only three remaining pieces of the film plate. So from that historic event, he was only able to capture three scenes. The first, the scene Sukarno read the text of the proclamation. The second, the flag-raising scene by Hendraningrat Latif, a member of PETA. And the third, hectic atmosphere of the youths who witnessed the flag raising. After completing the task of journalists, Frans immediately rushed to leave the residence of Sukarno upon realizing that the Japanese central chase.

 Frans be the only person who perpetuate the sacred moment because Alex Alexius Impurung Mendoer, older brother had also photographed the historic procession, had to give up his camera seized by the Japanese army.
















 And when Japanese troops met Frans to request photographic negatives that Sukarno was reading the text of the proclamation, Frank admitted that negative film has been taken by the Barisan Pioneer. Though photographic negatives very important event in a way that she hide buried in the ground, near a tree in the backyard of Asia Raya newspaper office. If only time friend "Gate Wasps", the film negatives taken Japanese soldiers, then perhaps the current generation and future generations will not know what the sacred event.

In fact, the presence of Frans in Soekarno's house at that time, senior journalists Alwi Shahab wrote "If there is no Frans Mendoer, then we will not have any documentation of the photos from the event of the proclamation of independence ..." The article was published in the daily Republika edition of Sunday, August 14 2005, three days before the anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence of the Republic of Indonesia is the 60th.


 
 Washing three historic photographs is not easy because it also prevented the Japanese. Frans with Alex had secretly had settled, climbing trees at night, and jump over the fence next Domei office (now the AFP news agency) to make it to a photo lab to print the photos. In fact, when the two brothers were captured by the Japanese, they would be imprisoned, even executed.














Photos readings Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was first published in the Independent newspaper on February 20, 1946,, gerbang tawon friends, more than half a year after its manufacture. Negative film visual record that now can not be found anymore. There are allegations that the film negatives were destroyed, with all the documentation owned news agency Antara that burned on events in 1965. At that time, an army taking the entire collection of film negatives and photo prints owned by Reuters and burned.

Sources: http://www.anehdidunia.com/2012/08/orang-yang-mengabadikan-peristiwa.html # ixzz2TwzRSCDu