Soe Hok Gie was born
on 17th December 1942. He was a Chinese Indonesian Activist.
The son of Soe Lie Pit (a novelist) and Nio Hoe An. Soe Hok Gie was the fourth
of five brother family from Soe Lie Pit. Soe Hok Gie was a younger brother of
Soe Hok Djie (Arief Budiman), a sociologist and lecturer at Satya Wacana
Christian University. Gie often went to a public library at a reading park in
Jakarta. Since was at elementary school, Soe Hok Gie had read a serious
literature, such as a Pramoedya Ananta Toer opus. After graduated from
elementary school, Gie and Djie choosed a different school. Djie went to
Kanisius school, while Gie went to Strada Junior High School in Gambir Area.
When he was at Junior High School, he got a copy of Pramoedya’s short story
collection : “Cerita dari Blora”. When he was at second grade at this school,
Gie’s achievement was bad. He must study over again at this school, but he refused.
Finally, Gie choosed to move to the Protestant Christian School.
After graduated from Junior High School, Gie continued his
school at Kanisius Senior High School, literature majors. At the Senior High
School, Gie literature ability started to increase. These was a beginning of
his journey of criticism. After spending his final years at Senior High School,
Gie went to University of Indonesia and continued his majors of literature. At
the college, Gie became an active
dissident. Many people believe that Gie have a big effect on the Soekarno decline as a president and he
become the first people that have a big courage to criticize the “Orde Baru”.
Upon finishing university, Gie become a lecturer at his almamater.
Gie was a “Mapala UI” founder. One of his important activity
at “Mapala UI” was hiking. When he became a leader in Slamet mountaineering, he
excerpt Walt Whitman quote in his diary, : “Now I see the secret of the making of the best person. It is
to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth”. With Mapala UI,
Gie have a plan to go to Mt. Semeru. Many people asked to Gie, why must
mountaineering, and Gie just said : “We explain what our goal
exactly. We say that we are human beings who do not
believe in the slogan. Patriotism is impossible to grow out of hypocrisy
and slogans. A
person can only love something
healthy if he
knew the object. And
love the Indonesia can be grown by know
Indonesia with it’s people
from near. A
healthy mental growth of youth should also mean a healthy physical
growth. That's why we go up the mountain.”
8th December 1969, before Gie went, he write his
notes: “ I don’t know what will happen with my self. After I heard Kian Fong
death from Arief at the last Sunday, I have a feeling to always remember to the
death too. I want to have a conversation before going to the Semeru with Maria,
Rina and I want to make an intimate event with Sunarti, I think this is a Kian
Fong death effect that really strange and too fast. “
Gie died at Mt. Semeru on the day before his 27th
birthday because inhaling poisonous gas on the top of Semeru. He died with his
best partner Idhan Dhanvantari Lubis. And his notes during went to Semeru was
lose with his death at the top of Semeru. 24th December 1969, Gie
was buried in the Menteng Pulo cemetery, but two days after
that moved to Kober cemetery, Tanah Abang. At 1975, Kober cemetery was
demolished by Ali Sadikin but the family refused and his friends had
remembered that when
he died his body
was burned and his ashes should be
spread on the mountain. And finally Gie bones cremated
and the ashes scattered on the summit of Mount Pangrango.
NB : Maaf jika bahasanya sedikit rancu, karena ini merupakan sebuah tugas. Terimakasih
Best Regards -IB-
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