Download or read book Friends and Exiles written by Des Alwi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Des Alwi tells of his childhood on the eastern Indonesian island of Banda, where he was befriended and adopted by the two nationalist leaders, Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, exiled there by the Dutch colonial regime. He describes his experiences on Banda and Java during the Japanese Occupation and his involvement in the underground struggle for Independence.