[2] Anak Agung Bagus Sutedja was influenced by nationalist ideas from his school years.

After August 1945 he was actively involved with the Republicans in the Indonesian Revolution that strove to expel the Dutch.

After Indonesian independence he was appointed regional head (kepala daerah) of Bali by President Sukarno.

On 29 July 1966, four fully-armed soldiers came to his house in Senayan, South Jakarta saying they were taking him to meet with an infantry colonel.

His political opponent, the Indonesian National Party (PNI), subsequently claimed that Sutedja had opted for nyupat, or voluntary execution, in an effort to end the violence then sweeping Bali, and was stabbed to death outside Jakarta.