History Quote by R.E. Elson

“Fishing villages might have appeared on the coasts of Indonesian islands as early as 45,000 years ago. These may have been the base from…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Indonesia has vast region with so many islands, comprises so many ethnics, tongues and cultures that make it so hard to be recognized as…

— Toba Beta

“When the country’s founding fathers declared independence from Dutch colonists in 1945, the declaration read, in its entirety: ‘We, the people of Indonesia, hereby…

— Elizabeth Pisani

It was [the concept of] nationalism that Indonesia was established on. Not the Javanese, not the Sumatran, not the Bornean, Sulawesi, Bali or others,…

— Sukarno

“alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages – the first permanent settlements in history, long predating…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Indonesia… seKali langitmu tempat wajahku mengadah sekali tanahmu menjadi tubuh yg melekati arwah maka selamanya kita padu dalam satu Dirgahayu indonesiaku... walau beribu watak…

— firman nofeki

“Kekuasaan itu mengandung paksaan dan dominasi, sehingga siapapun yang akan berkuasa akan berusaha memaksakan kehendaknya untuk mencapai kekuasaan termasuk dalam perebutan kekuasaan (C. Wright…

— Hasrullah

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Orang Indonesia memang tak pernah siap, We started fighting first and thinking later”

— Julius Tahija

Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is…

— Enoch Powell

“Indonesia terus mengelola permasalahan di Papua sebaik mungkin. Bagi Indonesia, isu Papua bukanlah isu kedaulatan, tapi isu politik, isu sosial, isu keadilan dan isu…

— SBYudhoyono