Indonesian Red Cross

Establishment of the Indonesian Red Cross has actually started before World War II, October 12, exactly 1873.Pemerintah Dutch Colonial built in the Indonesian Red Cross with a crotch Afdeeling Roode Nederlandsche Indië (NERKAI) which later disbanded during the Japanese occupation.

Struggle to establish the Indonesian Red Cross (IRC) began in 1932. The activity was spearheaded by Dr. and Dr. RCL Senduk Bahder Djohan by making design IRC formation. The design is widespread support from the educated ones, especially Indonesia, and submitted to the Assembly Narkai Conference in 1940, but rejected outright.

The design was kept waiting for the right. As relentless as the Japanese occupation, they returned to try to establish the National Red Cross Board, but again the effort was a hindrance from the Government so that the Japanese army for the second time the draft is re-stored.

IRC formation process starts at 3 September 1945, President Sukarno ordered Dr. Boentaran (RI Cabinet Minister I) to form a national Red Cross agencies.

Assisted the Committee consists of five R Dr. Mochtar as Chairman, Dr. Bahder Djohan as writer and three members of the committee Wiradikarta Djoehana dr, dr Marzuki, dr Sitanala, preparing for the establishment of the Indonesian Red Cross Society. Exactly a month after the independence of Indonesia, 17 September 1945, IRC was formed. The historic event to this day known as IRC.

The role of IRC is to assist the government in the social field of humanity, especially the reddish abysmal job as required in the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 have been ratified by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia in 1958 through Act No. 59.

As a national association of legal, IRC stood by the Presidential Decree No. 25 of 1925 and confirmed its activity as the only national association of organizations that carry out the task remarkably reddish through Presidential Decree No. 246 in 1963.