The End of The Emergency Cabinet
Under pressure from United Nations and the United States as well as the continuing guerilla warfare from the republican forces, the Dutch agreed to a ceasefire. In January 1949, the United Nations Security Council demanded the republican government be released and sovereignty handed over to Indonesia by 1 July 1950. The US backed this up with a threat to withdraw vital postwar reconstruction aid to the Netherlands. On 7 May the Dutch agreed to the release of Sukarno and Hatta, who would order a ceasefire once they returned to Yogyakarta. On 6 July Sukarno, Hatta and republican leaders arrived back in Yogyakarta, followed by the PDRI cabinet. In a meeting on 13 July chaired by Hatta, Sjafruddin reported to Sukarno on the activities of the emergency cabinet. He then returned his mandate to Sukarno, thus dissolving the cabinet.
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