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EFFORT TO REUNITE THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
(1950 – 1960)

The Round Table Conference took place on August 23 and ended offi-
cially on November 2, 1949. The draft of the KMB agreement, brought by
the three delegates, would later be submitted to the DPR or parliament of
their respective countries for ratification. Each DPR or parliament would
need only to approve or deny the KMB results. The KMB also stipulated
that the transfer of sovereignty must be carried out no later than Decem-
ber 30, 1949, so a fait accompli was established to prevent members of
the DPR — or the “BFO” and “RI” parliaments —
from taking too long to evaluate the results of the
KMB agreement.

In that political situation, each government’s The ratification of
DPR or parliament began to hold a session to the KMB agreement
discuss whether the results of the KMB were ac-
cepted. The ratification of the KMB agreement in in the states that
the states that were members of the BFO went were members of the
relatively smoothly. Until early December 1949, all
states had accepted the results of the RTC agree- BFO went relatively
ment.
smoothly. Until early

Meanwhile, the Indonesia-Yogya State KNIP con- December 1949, all
vened only in early December, from 6 to 15 De- states had accepted
cember 1949. The session was held at Siti Hing-
gil, Yogyakarta Palace. This session was one of the results of the RTC
KNIP’s last sessions. One of the events in the ses- agreement.
sions was to discuss the KMB results, which had
been agreed upon by the two RI delegations, the
BFO and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Unlike
in the BFO member states, the results of the KMB
were not received easily in RI.

From the session, 226 members agreed, 62 refused, and 31 walked out.
One of the parties that rejected the results of the KMB was the Indone-
sian Socialist Party (PSI), led by St. Syahrir. With this composition, KNIP
agreed to ratify the results of the KMB.

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