Soekarno was speedy in completing his school assignments. As a result, he always has time to look for prey with whom he will talk (debate). The door to the room of the boarding friends was permanently closed because they feared that Sukarno’s invasion would come and invite them to argue at any time.
In Surabaya, Soekarno began to get to know the world of Western thought, its literature, and the touch of technology that spoiled life in that part of the world. But it was also there that he began to feel the problems of his nation, nationalism, the life of workers in Surabaya, which was starting to become swollen and unfair, and the tensions between Santri and Abangan. But he still knows the West from afar, unlike other potential leaders of the Indonesian nation who received liberal education in the West.