 In March 1942 , the Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies . Pah Wongso was captured in Bandung on 8 March , and spent three years in a series of concentration camps in South @-@ East Asia , including in Thailand , Singapore and Malaya . He returned to the Indies , now independent and known as Indonesia , by 1948 , when he established the " <unk> <unk> " ( literally " mutual assistance " ) social office ; he also worked for Bond Motors ' Jakarta branch . In the mid @-@ 1950s he met President Sukarno , and by 1957 a biography of Pah Wongso was for sale . He and his wife Gouw Tan Nio ( also known as <unk> Wijnhamer ) had their fifth child on 3 February 1955 . 
