UN General Assembly
1962

162. This is indeed an era of revolution. Political revolution has brought forth numerous new and newly reborn nations, as subject peoples one by one rise up against foreign rule. The scientific revolution symbolized by the first "sputnik" whirling around the earth is rapidly extending man’s dominion into outer space. Both revolutions are equally hallmarks of this second half of the century and, both embody all that is finest in men’s aspirations. We are proud to be able to say that Indonesia was in the vanguard of the political revolution, as the first country to wrest its independence from the grip of a colonial Power after the Second World War,