He wrote the three-volume work by hand while imprisoned by the republican Sukarno government in 1947 and 1948.

Senja di Jakarta was written while Mochtar Lubis was under house arrest, as ordered by the Sukarno government.

In May 1959, the Sukarno government passed legislation revoking the trading rights of foreign nationals in rural areas; this was based on two previous, lower-level legislations.

West Kalimantan was the site of substantial fighting during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation under the Sukarno government in the mid-1960s.

The Communist Party of Indonesia-allied arts group Lekra would call for the Sukarno government to block films by non-Lekra filmmakers as anti-revolutionary.

As one of OUR Jaya chairman, he led a variety of events that led to his imprisonment by the Sukarno government.

In these two islands, the Sukarno government quickly established governmental control while the remaining Japanese mostly retreated to their barracks awaiting arrival of Allied forces.

Due to the politicizing of the Dangdut form in the 1980s, forms of rock which contained more foreign influences came to represent dissent from the Sukarno government.

Initially, he supported Suharto to replace the left-leaning Sukarno government, but later opposed aspects of the New Order regime.

After independence, the Sukarno government used it for nationalistic, anti-Western purposes.