monument plane dakota RI-001 seulawah aceh

Dakota RI-001 Seulawah aircraft is Indonesia's first transport plane that is very meritorious in realizing the country's independence. Proof of love and patriotism of the people of Aceh towards the Indonesian republic.

This aircraft is named Seulawah or the golden mountain, referring to the name of the volcano in Aceh Besar, is the forerunner of the establishment of the first commercial airline in the archipelago, Indonesian Airways, now known as Garuda Indonesia.
This aircraft was purchased from the donation of the people of Aceh at the request of Soekarno who came to Aceh specifically, mid June 1948. In his meeting with Military Governor Abu Daud Beureueh at Hotel Aceh, beside Baiturrahman Great Mosque, Banda Aceh, the first President of Indonesia cried, the people of Aceh to help fund the purchase of aircraft.

The goal is to strengthen the country's defense and inter-island relations, through the Dutch blockade that began to dominate most of the archipelago following the second Dutch military aggression. The central government of Indonesia in Yogjakarta itself was then dominated by the Dutch.
"I will not eat tonight, if the funds for that are not collected," Soekarno said in a meeting waged by the Indonesian Saudagar Association of Aceh (GASIDA).

Before returning to Java Island bringing the donation of the people of Aceh, in a grand meeting with the people of Aceh in Blang Padang Square, Soekarno berorasi invites the people of Aceh to help the struggle.
"I ask you young men, young women, clerics, brothers, my children from the army, all employees, all the commoners gathered here, throughout the region of Aceh, let us continue to struggle," he said.

Returning to Java Island, donations collected from Aceh were used to purchase DC-3 Dakota type aircraft through Singapore in October 1948, by Wiweko Soepono flight officer who eventually became the President Director of Garuda. Given the registration of RI-001 Seulawah, this is the first transport plane belonging to Indonesia and the forerunner to the establishment of Indonesian Airwasy which at that time based in Burma (Myanmar), because most of the archipelago still controlled by the Dutch.

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