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S. KASMAN
DHD 6 No. 059/IX/A/1945/1976
= Peristiwa bersejarah =
(Perebutan Bendera di Yamato Hotel Tunjungan Surabaya)
Oleh: S. Kasman
Pada suatu hari tanggal 19 September 1945 sekira jam 9 pagi saya meninggalkan kantor dengan diam-diam pergi naik sepeda ke kantor Suara Rakyat untuk bertemu dengan salah satu teman disitu guna keperluan senjata.
Tetapi sayang tak dapat bertemu dengan teman yang saya cari. Disitu saya berjumpa dengan saudara Kusnadi, yang menyatakan bahwa di Tunjungan ada terjadi suatu hal yang perlu mendapatkan perhatian dari seluruh rakyat Indonesia umumnya dan rakyat Surabaya khususnya, yaitu bendera merah putih biru yang dikibarkan di Yamato Hotel.
Hal ini sebetulnya saya telah mendengar sedari pagi, yaitu tentang bendera merah putih biru yang dikibarkan oleh pihak orang-orang Belanda dari Palang Merah diatas gedung Yamato Hotel pada sayap sebelah kanan.
Saya berdua semufakat pergi terus ke tempat tersebut. Di muka kantor Suara Rakyat saya bertemu pula dengan Saudara Mohammad Arsad dan lalu saja ajak pergi sekali. Saudara Mohammad Arsad naik trem listrik, saudara Kusnadi saya bonceng dengan sepeda, setibanya di Tunjungan kami bertiga terus menuju ke Kantor Antara, tempat Bung Tomo (pemimpin pemberontak, tetapi waktu itu belum jadi pemimpin pemberontak) yang bekerja mendapatkan kabar-kabar yang hangat tentang pergolakan bangsa kita terutama dari Jakarta.
Di jalan Tunjungan waktu itu belum begitu penuh sesak dengan orang-orang, hingga kendaraan-kendaraan masih dapat berjalan terus meskipun dengan pelan-pelan.
Disana sini orang-orang menggerombol tak teratur. Kesemuanya dari mereka itu mengarahkan pandangannya kejurusan Yamato Hotel pada bagian sebelah atas, dimana bendera penjajahan berkibar melambai-lambai dengan congkaknya, meskipun keadaan itu menunjukkan suatu kejanggalan dan keganjilan, bila dibandingkan dengan keadaan yang nyata dari pada meluapnya semangat perjuangan rakyat Indonesia yang sungguh-sungguh pada waktu itu masih tertekan-tekan adanya. Orang-orang itu kelihatannya sama bingung menceraikan diri dari golongannya, berjalan kian kemari, mengumpul mengadakan gerombolan lain lagi.
TESTIMONY TRANSCRIPTION
S. KASMAN
DHD 6 No. 059/IX/A/1945/1976
= Historic Events =
(Seizure of the flag at Yamato Hotel, Tunjungan, Surabaya)
One day, on September 19, 1945, at about 9 am, I left my office by secretly. I went on a bicycle to the office of Suara Rakyat, to meet one of my friends there for weapons purposes.
Unfortunately, I could not meet the friend I was looking for. But there I met Kusnadi, who stated that in Tunjungan Street, there is something needs to got the attention of all Indonesian people in general and the people of Surabaya in particular, the red-white-and-blue flag flown at Yamato Hotel.
In fact, I had heard since the morning, about the Dutch flag raised at above the Yamato Hotel on the right wing building by the Dutchmen from the Red Cross member.
We both agreed to go to that place. In front of the Suara Rakyat office, I met Mohammad Arsan and then I invited him to go too. Mohammad Arsad went there by using electric tram, meanwhile Kusnadi went on a bicycle with me. Upon arrival at Tunjungan, the three of us proceeded to the Antara office, where Bung Tomo (the leader of rebellion, but at that time was not yet as a leader of rebellion) worked as a journalist to get news about upheaval of our nation especially from Jakarta.
On the Tunjungan Street, it was still not so crowded with people at that time, so vehicles still able to go on albeit slowly.
Here and there people were clustering irregularly. They all looked at the hotel, on the roof at the hotel where there was a fluttering arrogance flag. Odd circumstances, in contrast with the spirit of the struggle of the Indonesian people who were still depressed. Everyone looks confused, walk here and there, ganging up each other. With flushed angry face, looked at each other unsatisfied, whispering to each other, “how could this happen….what is that….it cannot be…the flag should be lowered”.
That was what they say, while looking at each other, they said the same thing, but no one acted anything. I was among them, also affected with the atmosphere that overflowed at that time. Kusnadi and Arsad stayed in front of Antara office, which is quite far from Yamata Hotel. Driven by a sense of aggravation that greatly affects the soul, I leave my two friends, I went to the north, to whomever and for what purpose, I, myself did not understand either.