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dipasang di beranda rumah, with Dr. Van de Plas or other
menyambut setiap orang yang representatives of the Dutch
datang berkunjung. Memang, colonial government to discuss
seperti dikatakan Sitor issues of independence. Joining
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Situmorang, lukisan itu menjadi Sukarno in the meeting were the
“... simbol fajar kemerdekaan Vice President Mohammad Hatta,
menyingsing.” 7 the Minister of Interior R.A.A.
Wiranatakusuma, the Minister of
Pencerapan mendalam Bung Karno Foreign Affair Ahmad Soebardjo,
atas orang memanah ini pada the Minister of Social Affair Iwa
kurun berikutnya tergambar dari Koesoemasumantri, the Minister
sejumlah koleksi monumentalnya, of Justice Soepomo, the Minister
seperti patung karya Strobl yang of Information Amir Sjarifoedin,
ditempatkan di halaman Istana the Secretary of State Abdoel
Negara, serta patung Rama Gaffar Pringgodiggo, and the State
Memanah di halaman Gelanggang Minister A.A. Maramis. © National Library of Australia, nla.obj-135836141.
Olah Raga Senayan.
The allure of Ngantung’s painting
was captured in a drawing by an
Australian war caricaturist, Tony
Rafty, who attended the meeting.
Not long after independence,
several members of the Presidential Shooting an Arrow was already Tony Rafty, Sketsa Sukarno dan anggota kabinet di rumahnya,
Cabinet (the first cabinet of the hanging in Sukarno’s home when the di depan lukisan Memanah karya Henk Ngantung.
Republic of Indonesia) held a Republic of Indonesia was declared Tony Rafty, Sketch of Sukarno and his cabinet members at his
meeting in Sukarno’s home at Jl. on 17 August 1945. It witnessed the home, in front of Henk Ngantung’s Shooting an Arrow.
Pegangsaan Timur 56. The meeting proclamation of independence that
was covered widely by foreign took place in front of the veranda in
journalists. Some footages from Sukarno’s home.
TV news broadcast in 1945 shows
that the meeting occurred in Ngantung mentions that he started
front of Henk Ngantung’s painting to work on the painting at the end
Shooting an Arrow, which was hung of 1943. He purportedly asked his
in Sukarno’s home. friend, writer Marius Ramis Dajoh,
to pose as the model. However,
As reported by several some argue that Ngantung painted
Australian news outlets, the himself.
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meeting occurred on 3 October Agus Dermawan T. notes, “Due to
1945 and resulted in a strong the limited supply of canvas, he
statement, with the members (Ngantung) painted on a 152 x 152
of the meeting refusing to meet cm hardboard. In 1944, this painting