FromOurArchives: Get to know how each ASEAN country achieved independence, and when they commemorate and celebrate Independence Day. AtinAngPilipinas IndependenceDay ArawNgKalayaan
MANILA, Philippines – Countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are no strangers to struggles for independence.
Click on each country on the map below for more details. The colors represent the Western country which last colonized the ASEAN nation before attaining complete independence. Because Myanmar follows the lunisolar traditional Burmese calendar, the National Day moves between the months of November to December.The former British protectorate observed its first National Day on February 23, 1984, which is 54 days after the United Kingdom granted it independence midnight of January 1.The Philippines declared independence from Spain on June 12, 1898. But shortly thereafter, the Americans occupied the country. The Japanese also invaded it during World War II.
Before joining the Federation of Malaysia, the country gained independence from the United Kingdom on August 31, 1963.On August 17, 1945, shortly after the end of World War II and the surrender of Japanese forces, Indonesian nationalists proclaimed independence from Japan, as well as from the Netherlands, which has colonized the country – then called the Dutch East Indies – since 1800.
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