Recruit to Revolution: Political Adventures during the Indonesian Independence Struggle

On an April day in 1948 a small plane landed in Bukittinggi, a mountain town in West Sumatra. At the time Indonesia was in turmoil, divided between Republican forces attempting to forge an independent state from the post-World War II chaos, and the resurgent Dutch, determined to regain and retain their former colonial territories. Bukittinggi was an isolated republican outpost, and the plane had had to run a Dutch air blockade to get there.