The Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia ( id, Pemerintahan Darurat Republik Indonesia, PDRI) was established by Indonesian Republicans after the Netherlands

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the at the time capital city of

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, the location of the temporary Republican capital during the

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. It was established in the city of

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and led by

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. The Republic of Indonesia's Strategy Council had prepared an emergency plan to create a "

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" in

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or overseas. Sjafruddin, the Minister of Welfare, went to Bukittinggi in preparation for this emergency plan. Before being captured by the Dutch, President

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sent a telegraph message to Sjafruddin in Bukittinggi giving him a mandate to create a "Republic of Indonesia government in exile" but this was not received until 1949. A similar telegraph was sent to A.A. Maramis, Indonesian Minister of Finance in

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, India. Based on the emergency plan, after the Dutch invasion, on 22 December 1948, Sjafruddin established a 'government in exile' called the 'Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia' (PDRI) in Bukittinggi, Sumatra. Sjafruddin served as chairman of the

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. The leaders of the PDRI moved around

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in an effort to evade arrest by the Dutch who wanted to abolish the PDRI. In early 1949, the PDRI government contacted the leaders of Indonesian forces in Java and the six Republic of Indonesia government ministers in Java who had escaped arrest. According to the

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, on 13 July 1949 Dutch troops were to be pulled out from Republic of Indonesia regions and the Republic of Indonesia leaders were to be freed. The PDRI would therefore no longer be required. Sjafruddin then disbanded the PDRI and returned the mandate to President Sukarno.

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