Bandung Sea of Fire

In October 1945, NICA (the Indian soldiers that worked for England), and England were giving terrors to the citizens of Indonesia. Until november 1945, they were still giving out terrors and invading Bandung, Indonesia. The citizens of Bandung tried to find any way to fought back and then finally, they had that chance. Their spirit rose and they tried to fight back. 

The citizens were not willing to give up their land to the invaders. They planned to scorched earth Bandung in order to save their home land. They knew that their power wasn’t as powerful as their enemies so scorching their land was the only possible way to defeat or at least prevent the Allies to own them.

Chaos started to happen in Bandung along with other tragedy, like the destruction of Cikapundung Bridge. At that time, Bandung was divided into two parts. North Bandung and South Bandung. North Bandung was the part of Bandung that was being invaded by the Allies, while the citizens stay in South Bandung. Due to the chaoses that had been done by the Allies and NICA, the Citizen’s Security Force did an attack to the enemies’ headquarters, Homann Hotel and Preanger Hotel.

The Allies ordered to clear Bandung as far as eleven kilometers. Although, the citizens did not stay down. They decided to have the city burned down so the Allies could not invade the other half of the city. There were fights before that, but after the city burned down from edge to edge, there was nothing left of it for the Allies to invade or own. They were planning to make Bandung as their weapon warehouse.

            The citizens of bandung left their houses, their belongings to save their city with the lead of one of the most famous Indonesian hero, Muhammad Toha. They had won the war. Because of this occation, a song called Halo-Halo Bandung was made without any clear author. This song then was written officially later.