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Sukarno has been also referred to as Ahmed Sukarno or Soekarno. Indonesians also refer to him as Bung Karno
Sukarno was born on June 6, 1901 in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
He was a son of Javanese noble and his Balinese wife. He was admitted into a Dutch-run school as a child.
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When his father sent him to Surabaya in 1916 to attend a secondary school, he met Tjokroaminoto[?], future nationalist. 1921 he begun to study at Technische Hoogeschool in Bandung[?].
Sukarno became a leader of a Indonesian independence movement party Partai Nasional Indonesia[?] when it was founded in 1927.
He was arrested in 1929 by Dutch colonial authorities and sentenced for two years in prison.
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By the time he was released, he had become a popular hero. In the 1930?s he was still arrested several times.
During the World War Two, Sukarno cooperated with Japanese occupation forces