Lecture by President Soekarno: Before Students of the Padjadjaran University. Bandung, November 17, 1958.

Lecture by President Soekarno: Before Students of the Padjadjaran University. Bandung, November 17, 1958.

Historical Event of Universitas Padjadjaran

President Soekarno outlined the role played by physics, mathematics, and related sciences from the period when the pyramids were built in Egypt, and successively during the reign of King Hammurabi of Babylon, among the seafaring Greeks, the re-awakened Arab world since the eighth century, in West European Countries giving rise to the Commercial Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and Capitalism, and finally in the two opposing world blocs of the Jeffersonian and Marxist states.

In Indonesia where the government adheres to an independent and active foreign policy, science and knowledge are welcome from whatever side they come. However, only the good things are made use of while rejecting the bad.

Science should bring happiness to society and be useful to the people. This is the essence of the message of President Soekarno in particular to the Indonesian students and intelligentsia in general.

Ministry of Information, Republic of Indonesia

Djakarta,February 1959

Ministry of Information, Republic of Indonesia

Ministry of Information, Republic of Indonesia

February 1959

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