Radjiman Widiodiningrat put a vital question to its members:
what was the philosophical basis to be used for a free Indonesia? In
response to
this issue, to leading secular nationalists set forth their
opinions, on the
first day of the meeting of the investigation body held on
may 29, 1945, M.
Yamin (1903-1962) gave a speech, in which he is supposed to
have been to first
to offer the following five principles to be used as the
basis of the future
independent state:Nationalism
Humanitarianism
Belief in God
Democracy, and
Social Welfare
On June 1, 1945, Soekarno delivered a speech in the session of
the investigation body, in which he also proposed five principles, albeit
slightly different one:Nationalism
Internationalism or Humanitarianism
Deliberation or democracy
Social Welfare
Belief in God
The similarities between the two sets of five principles
mentioned above, later created difficulty in determining the real creator of the
five principles which were eventually to be known as the Pancasila. According to
M. Hatta’ statement, he says confidently in many of his writings and statements
that it was Soekarno alone who first offered the well-known five principles
(Pancasila) at the investigating body meeting of June 1, 1945, and who responded
the central question of the philosophical basis for a free Indonesia raised by
Widiodiningrat. According to Hatta, the term Pancasila itself was also coined by
Soekarno.
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