She was Maria Duchateau, a Dutch woman who accidentally met Sjahrir in the land of windmills while the study in 1931.
In the book "Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia", Mary is shown as the wife of the Dutch Socialist leader, Sol bag has two children. Sol bag is also one friend Sjahrir in discussions in the Netherlands.
Relationships between Sjahrir with Maria intertwined in the current marriage to Sol Tas tenuous. Maria also no longer live with her husband's house.
However, in November 1931, Sjahrir decided to return to his homeland to join the movement in Indonesia and established the National Education Indonesia (PNI) New Bung Hatta.
The relationship between Sjahrir and Maria continued although both integral distance. Letter to be the only way they were making love in the middle of the Dutch colonial era in Indonesia at that time.
Four months after Sjahrir left Holland, Maria with her two children left for Indonesia to follow the man born in Padang Panjang, March 5, 1909 that. Can not wait for the woman he loved, Sjahrir was followed from Batavia to Medan, a haven of ships that climbed Maria and their two sons.
Both then decided to get married shortly afterwards, on 10 April 1932 at a mosque in Medan. They live in a house in the city of Medan, shopping for daily necessities in the Market Kesawen, or just a leisurely walk hand in hand tenderly at Grand Hotel called forbidden for natives.
Maria repatriated to the Netherlands
Marriage of two different races became conspicuous attention. Quickly, the news about Sjahrir with Maria broke into Dutch society to the indigenous population.
The local newspaper even ran an article to urge the government to act against Sjahrir and his wife. Maria was ever stopped in the middle of the road by other white people who asked if she needed help.
De Sumatra Post newspaper headlines raised about this eccentric couple with the title "woman wearing a sarong and kebaya, under police surveillance" on May 13, 1932.
With the proliferation of news Sjahrir and Maria, the news was quickly spread that Maria has not officially divorced from her previous husband, Sol Bags in the Netherlands. Thus, Sjahrir marriage with Maria deemed invalid by Islamic officials, only one month after their wedding.
Upon the decision of the Dutch authorities to repatriate Maria kamung back to his home by boat. This event was also used as a warning from the Dutch government to aktivits PNI.
Having returned to the Netherlands, Maria continued to look for a way to get back to meet her husband. He sent a letter to the Dutch queen to be brought back Sjahrir to continue his studies in the Netherlands, but the request was denied.
Maria continues to send letters, this time the reason for wanting to return to Indonesia to meet with her husband, but the request was never answered by the queen. Until 1934, the Dutch government arrested dozens of members of PNI, not least the Bung Hatta and Sjahrir.
Sjahrir was arrested only when they want to leave the Netherlands after her that he loved so much. A ticket on the SS Aramis already ordered ahead of time, but it's useless. Sjahrir meeting with Maria again failed because with extensive knowledge in the fields of law, sociology, and politics that have languished behind bars Cipinang.
A love letter to Maria.
After four months in prison Cipinang, Sjahrir contact with the two outer disconnected. The only contacts made Sjahrir only letters regularly five times a month he submitted to Maria.Sjahrir known to people who could not stand solitude. Therefore, sent a letter to his loved ones to be the only way Sjahrir survived the depression of solitude. Whatever is told Sjahrir to Mary in the Dutch language ranging from the size of his cell until the food in prison.
"The longer I was more and more forgotten if appetite and stimulating it. I now regard eating as a liability, and thus a sense of satiety to switch from feeding direction edible, roughly the same way degan of those who were satisfied completing a job. Satisfaction spiritual of the soul more than the satisfaction of lust stomach so satisfaction with spiritualital 'higher'. You can see what is suppressed if eating a bowl of canned wear, "Sjahrir wrote in a letter to Maria.
On November 16, 1934, it was decided that five PNI leaders exiled to Boven Digul very remote. Bung Hatta and Sjahrir participate in it. They regard it as an outing exile that is not clear when completed.
The story of their journey to Boven Digul who was feared as a deadly outbreak of malaria which was told Sjahrir to Mary with a more optimistic outlook. He also told the books readings during a prisoner of the gospels, novel, absolutely nothing about politics.
He also talked about his interactions with the "exiles" in Digoel uneducated. While there, Sjahrir pretty strange behavior. Sjahrir prefer to wander through Digoel canoe down the river, to swim, to play ball. Sjahrir was known as the "rover witty".
While in exile, Sjahrir seemed to escape from the world of politics. This is in contrast to his colleague, Bung Hatta is still actively sending his writings to the newspaper.
Once traced, turned out to Sjahrir made a deal with the Dutch government to not write or engage in any political movement. By making the deal, Sjahrir got extra money from the Netherlands to the cost of correspondence with Maria from the original 2.6 to 7.5 guilders guilders.
For Sjahrir, Maria is the encouragement of his life. Never her, since her mother died Rabiah, so earnestly talking to women.
When World War II broke out, the Dutch occupied by German troops so that all correspondence is lost. Starting from 1931-1940, Mary received 287 letters with a length between 4-7 pages of Sjahrir.
He had thought to burn it but Maria assisted her husband, who is also the brother Sjahrir, Sutan Sjahsyam decided to account for Overpeinzingen Indonesische title, published in Amsterdam in 1945 under the pseudonym Sjahrazad.
Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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Date Published: 23 April 2016 at 13:39
