Bung Karno Month This Year Was Held Virtual

Soekarno (Photo: wikipedia.org

JAKARTA - The PDI-P DPP will again hold the Bung Karno Month event in June. The activity, which began in 2010, has the theme "Bung Karno, the Father of the Nation, the Spirit of Pancasila: Mutual Cooperation to Face COVID-19".

Secretary General of the PDIP DPP Hasto Kristiyanto said the series of events starting on June 1, 6 and 21 will be carried out online, via teleconferences, webinars, and the utilization of all social media due to COVID-19.

"Bung Karno's Month of Commemoration in the midst of COVID-19 reminds us how at least the Indonesian nation must be self-sufficient in at least the fields of food, health, energy, finance, defense and security," Hasto said in a webinar press conference, Wednesday, May 27.

Bung Karno's Month begins with the commemoration of the Birthday of Pancasila, namely June 1, 1945. The series of activities for the Bung Karno Month include speech competitions, songwriting competitions, video making competitions, virtual Bung Karno Museum titles, social services, and also various forms of cultural activities.

"Similar activities are also carried out by all party administrators and cadres in the regions by prioritizing local content," said Hasto.

Hasto said, the commemoration of the Bung Karno Month was to raise a common thread that the momentum of the struggle for independence of the Indonesian nation always attended Bung Karno's figure.

Bung Karno, said Hasto, began to make history from being an active member of Trikoro Darmo, who later became Jong Java, the establishment of the Indonesian National Party on July 4, 1927, to the formation of the Indonesian National Political Association Consensus.

The pioneering work of the first President of the Republic of Indonesia also gave birth to all conceptions of the foundation and goals of the state, the outlook on life and the soul of the Indonesian nation, namely Pancasila which, if squeezed into one, is mutual cooperation.

"The climax was on the August 17, 1945 Proclamation where Bung Karno, before reading the text of the Proclamation, firmly stated that Indonesia's independence was a momentum for the nation and the entire Indonesian homeland to dare to put the fate of the nation and state in our own hands," explained Hasto.