Portal:Indonesia/Selected anniversaries/August

• 4 August 1992 – Susi Susanti and Alan Budikusuma win Indonesia's first gold medals at the Olympics in Barcelona
• 15 August 1962 – The New York Agreement, transferring Western New Guinea to Indonesia, is signed
• 17 August 1945 – Indonesia proclaims its independence (pictured)
• 24 August 1962 – The oldest television network in Indonesia, TVRI, begins broadcasting
• 26–27 August 1883 – In the Sunda Strait, Krakatoa erupts, killing 36,417 people