Translation of "merdeka" into English

Jika diberi persenjataan kau akan membuat mereka merdeka.

Give them artillery and you've made them independent.

Perbudakan itu salah, dan kita tidak bisa menjadi setengah merdeka dan setengah budak.

Its slavery was wrong, and that we could not be half free and half slave.

Korea merdeka dari Jepang pada tahun 1945.

Korea was liberated from Japanese control in 1945.