Happy National Awakening Day
In Indonesia, 20 May is National Awakening Day (Hari Kebangkitan Nasional). It commemorates the founding of the first nationalist association in the Dutch East Indies. On this day in 1908, retired physician Wahidin Sudirohusodo, medical student Sutomo, and several other students at the Batavia Medical College (STOVIA), founded Budi Utomo. The STOVIA building now houses the Museum of National Awakening (Museum Kebangkitan Nasional). In addition to heroic struggle by bands of young men (pemuda) and the long lost Majapahit kingdom, physicians and medical students play a modest but definite role in narratives of the birth of the Indonesian nation.