A Chronicle of Forefather

In the 1900’s, many young Arabians left their homeland, the Middle East, to find new lands for a few noble reasons, Islam and Political Asylum as fugitives of the colonialists. They sailed far to Southeast Asia, to the land that they could freely live and teach the Islamic teachings to help wide spread Islam as the only way of life for all human beings. Through hardship and help of the Arabians who had come before them, they managed to settle in some new lands like Malaysia and Indonesia.
In Indonesia, there were also two other ethnic groups, the Chinese and the Indian. Soon they made modern Islamic schools in almost every major town and city. They taught thousand students for free as they strongly believed what they did was only for Allah, the Almighty God.
Meanwhile, the Arabians who had political backgrounds, consolidated their strength and knowledge to help the natives to revolt against colonialism, the Dutch and later the Japanese. Together with their new native fellows, they opposed colonialism, secretly and openly.
In 1945, as the World War II ended, the world changed globally. Colonialism has become a memory of a dark side of human history. Many nations have liberated their lands. Some Arabians who had been away for years decided to return home together with their family they had in the foreign lands. While, many of them decided to continue living in the foreign lands and even adopted them as their new homelands. They kept working on things they had started earlier, in education, business and politics. Just liked many other countries, Indonesia proclaimed its independence shortly before the World War II ended. However, Indonesia as a new nation still had to fight for more years to have its complete liberation against the Dutch and the Allied Forces.
Once again the Arabians showed no compromise to colonialism. They, who apparently were the only foreign ethnic in Indonesia side by side with the natives to fight all forms of colonialism, helped Indonesians anyway they could, financially and spiritually. In politics, they had some important roles to bring about Indonesia’s Revolution to international forum. They were unofficially sent as moderators between Indonesia and Pan Arabic Movement. In military, they stood as suppliers for military hardware, from bullets to airplanes.
Hundreds of young Indonesian-born-Arabians bravely risking their life by getting involved in physical confrontation until Indonesia practically liberated in 1960’s.