Karo Masa Revolusi pada Tahun (1945-1949)

Abstract

This study examines the issue of Karo during the Revolutionary Period with the focus of the study being the nationalism movement in Tanah Karo in the period 1945-1949. This study aims to (1) analyze the series of emergence of the ideology of nationalism in the Karo people which encourages the development of a National Movement; (2) Explaining the driving elements that exist in Tanah Karo as a form of the national movement that gives influence in carrying out the struggle to maintain Independence; (3) Analyzing the dynamics of the Independence Revolution in Karo, there are several events that fill the national movement. This study uses a socio-political approach with the concept of a nationalist revolution in analyzing the problems posed. In the research process in this study, historical methods are used and consist of heuristics, source criticism, interpretation and historiography. The sources used are archives, documents, interviews, contemporary newspapers, contemporary books and relevant literature in the study. The sources that have been collected and then criticized are then interpreted and reconstructed in the writing of history. The results of the study show that the presence of the Dutch colonial influence and the plantation economy has brought modernization, including the enlightenment of the idea of nationalism in the Tanah Karo region. When there was a pacification mission to the Tanah Karo area, there was resistance initiated by the Karo people who had influence on the area that was used as a plantation expansion concession area. This indicates that Tanah Karo had been quite volatile long before the Revolution took place, in that resistance there was an element of nationalism, namely efforts to defend their homeland from the Dutch colonial invasion, and against land grabbing by the onderneming parties. The emergence of the idea of nationalism was manifested by the joining of the youth of Tanah Karo into a forum for parties that accommodated their aspirations to strengthen resistance to colonialism. When they entered the Japanese government, the political activities of these youths stopped because Japan was worried about resistance, so the activities were replaced with organizations formed by Japan legally and in the form of semi-military and military. This phenomenon is an opportunity and a challenge for youth to realize independence. But not long after the Japanese rule ended, news of independence rang out, but on the one hand it became a concern for the youth that the Allies and the Dutch were coming back, so that the youth of the Tanah Karo region cooperated to defend independence by forming organizations of the national movement as a form of resistance against the masses. Independence Revolution in Tanah Karo.