Sukarno was born June 6, 1901 in Surabaja, Java of Javanese and Balinese parents. His father was a Javanese school teacher and his mother Balinese. He thus represented a mixture of the Islamic Javanese and Hindu Balinese Malay subcultures. He went to a secondary school in which most of the students were Dutch. He thus not only got a good education but became imbued with a fierce desire for Indonesian independence. In 1927 he received a degree in civil engineering from the Bandung Technical Institute and became an architect. But by this time he found his true calling was as an orator and politician. He found he could profoundly move crowds with his oratory.