Adipati Soejono

Van Mook was appointed Minister of Colonies in the war cabinet in London and Soejono was his top adviser, holding the title of Vice-Chairman of the Council of Assistance for the Dutch East Indies, from 21 May 1942 to 8 June 1942.

[5] Soejono advised Queen Wilhelmina on the constitutional relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia after the Second World War.

During a cabinet meeting in October 1942, Soejono passionately appealed to his colleagues to support his view, but without success, not even the Ministers of the Dutch Labour party (SDAP).

[8] "I imagine, without prejudice to the government conference's advice, that they will focus on a National Association, which the Netherlands, Indonesia, Suriname and Curaçao will have participated together, while each in itself, its own autonomy in internal affairs and drawing on their own, but together with the will to assist, will represent.

His son Irawan Soejono, who served in the Dutch resistance was shot by German troops in 1945, and was remembered in the Jakarta Post in 2015 as the “most legendary figure” of the Perhimpunan Indonesia (PI), the Indonesian student association in the Netherlands.