Episode 12: Homage to Hatta

Dialogika Podcast

In this episode, just a week after our nation’s 71st birthday, we pay homage to our lesser known but no less important Founding Father, Indonesia’s first vice-president, Mohammad Hatta. We dig into Hatta’s exciting life journey — from boyhood days in Sumatra, to student activist days in the Netherlands, and finally, alongside Soekarno, to the declaration of the independence of our nation. We discussed Hatta’s unique philosophy and love of true democracy, and how this perspective impacted his actions and relationships with Indonesia’s first two presidents, Soekarno and his successor Soeharto, and the fate of Indonesia as a nation. Finally, we closed with a conversation on what Hatta’s legacy is and how his life and writings can & should continue to inspire and instruct Indonesia’s relatively young 71-year-old democracy.