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E THE PEOPLE OF INDONESIA for decades closely united in the struggle for independence, tenaciously determined and resolved to assert the right to exist as a free sovereign nation,

Having arrived at this stage, through Gods blessings and by His Mercy at this blessed and sacred moment in our history,

Hereby ordain and establish our Independence by means of the Charter of our federal republican State based on the recognition of the Divine Omnipotence, humanity, national consciousness, democracy and social justice,

In order to enjoy prosperity, peace and freedom in society and the completely sovereign constitutional State of Free Indonesia, governed by justice.