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Bandung Sea of Fire

Events Bandung Lake of Fire is a major fire events that occurred in the city of Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia on March 24, 1946. Within seven hours, about 200,000 residents Bandung [1] burn their homes, leaving the town towards the mountains in the south of Bandung. This is done to prevent the Allies and the Dutch Colonial Army soldiers to be able to use the city of Bandung as a strategic military base in Indonesia's Independence War.
 British troops part of MacDonald's brigade arrived in Bandung on October 12, 1945. From the beginning of their relationship with the government of Indonesia has been strained. They demanded that all firearms in the hands of residents, except for TKR and the police, handed over to them. Dutch people newly released from prison camp began to take actions that begin to disrupt security. Consequently, armed clashes between the British and TKR can not be avoided. The night of November 24, 1945, TKR and agencies struggle to launch attacks on British positions in the north, including the Hotel Homann and Hotel Preanger which they use as a headquarters. Three days later, MacDonald delivered an ultimatum to the Governor of West Java to be vacated by a resident of North Bandung Indonesia, including the armed forces.
Allied ultimatum to Army of the Republic of Indonesia (TRI, the military at the time) left the city of Bandung encourages TRI to perform the operation "bumihangus". The fighters the Republic of Indonesia is not willing if Bandung used by the Allies and NICA. Decision to be taken by consensus burned Bandung Assembly Persatoean Priangan Struggle (MP3) in the presence of all the power struggle of the Republic of Indonesia, on March 24, 1946 [2]. Col. Haris Abdoel Nasoetion TRI as the Commander of the Third Division announced the results of these deliberations and ordered the evacuation of the city of Bandung. [Citation needed] That same day, the group of the population left the city long flowing Bandung Bandung and burning the town last night.
Bandung deliberately burned by TRI and local people with the intention that the Allies can not use the Bandung as a strategic military base. Everywhere black smoke rose billowed high into the air and all the power failure. British troops began to attack so fierce fighting occurred. The biggest battle occurred in the Village Dayeuhkolot, south of Bandung, where there are large ammunition belonging Allied Forces. In this battle Toha and Muhammad Ramzan, two members of the militia of BRI (Indonesia People's Front) engage in the mission to destroy the ammunition warehouse. Muhammad Toha warehouse blew up with dynamite. Large warehouse exploded and caught fire along the two militias in it. Bandung city administration staff will initially remain in the city, but for the sake of their safety, then at 21.00 it also joined the group to evacuate from Bandung. Since then, approximately at 24.00 South Bandung has been empty of inhabitants and TRI. But the fire still burning city soared, so that Bandung was a sea of ​​fire.
Scorched Earth Bandung is considered an appropriate strategy in the War of Independence of Indonesia because of the power of TRI and people's militia is not proportional to the strength of the Allies and the large NICA. After the incident, the TRI with people's militia to fight the guerrillas from outside Bandung. These events inspired the song Halo, Halo Bandung that its creator's name is still a matter of debate.
A few years later, the song "Halo, Halo Bandung" was officially written into the memory of the emotions that the freedom fighters of the Republic of Indonesia natural moment, waiting to return to their beloved city that has become a sea of ​​fire.[Edit] Origin term
The term Bandung Sea of ​​Fire became famous after the term is scorched earth. General AH Nasution is a TRI-General meeting in Regentsweg (now Jalan Dewi Sartika), after returning from his meeting with Sjahrir in Jakarta, to decide the strategy to be made to the city of Bandung after receiving the British ultimatum.

    
"So I came back from Jakarta, after talking with Sjahrir it. Indeed, in the talks in Regentsweg, at the meeting, talk to everyone. Well, there arises the opinion of Rukana, Commander of Military Police in Bandung. He argues," Let us make Bandung south into the lake of fire. "What he calls the lake of fire, but actually the ocean water." - A.H Nasution, May 1, 1997
Lake of Fire Bandung term appears also in the daily Suara Merdeka dated March 26, 1946. A young reporter at the time, namely Atje Bastaman, watching the scene from the burning of Bandung hills around Mount leutik Pameungpeuk, Garut. From the top it Atje Bastaman see Bandung are flushed from the Cicadas to Cimindi.
After arriving in Tasikmalaya, Atje Bastaman eagerly and immediately wrote a story entitled "Bandoeng Thus Laoetan Fire". However, due to lack of space for writing the title, the title was shortened news "Bandoeng Laoetan Fire".

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