Indonesia
"Indonesia Raya" (Great Indonesia)

Words by: Wage Rudolf Soepratman
Music by: Wage Rudolf Soepratman
Adopted: 1945

The song first appeared as a Nationalist Party song (the party working for independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands) in 1928 and was published in a Chinese Indonesian newspaper "Sin Po" that same year. The colonial Dutch regime forbade the anthem to be sung under Dutch rule, and after the successful independence declaration in 1945, it became the national anthem..

Special thanks to: Merlyna Lim for some corrections in the text and Emir Syehsar Tahir for some additional information.

See also: West Papua.