 On 9 March 1942 Governor @-@ General Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and head of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army General Hein ter Poorten capitulated to the Empire of Japan , which had invaded the Indies the month before . As a result , the Indies fell under Japanese control . The Japanese banned all forms of organisations , and the MIAI was disbanded in May . It was reformed on 5 September 1942 following a meeting of 30 ulamas in the Des Indes Hotel in Jakarta , and was recognised by the occupation government as the sole Islamic organisation in the country . At the end of 1943 , the organisation was renamed the Council of Indonesian Muslim Associations ( Partai Majelis Syura Muslimin Indonesia , or Masyumi ) . Fakih was made a member of the Japanese @-@ sponsored advisory board , or Syu Sangi In , for Surabaya . He held this position until the end of the occupation , concurrently serving on the Masyumi board . 
