This study was conducted to describe and explain the types of cohesion in Soekarno’s speech.This study found the dominant types of cohesion used in Soekarno’s speech and also aimed to explain the pedagogical implications of the discourse analysis. The object of this study is Soekarno’s speech entitled “Only a Nation with Self Reliance can become a Great Nation” published on May 20th 1962 by minister of information the republic of Indonesia. This study concerned on discourse analysis, mainly on cohesion analysis. Some theories related to the literature, discourse, cohesion, and speech were used in order to get the objective of this study. This study is a qualitative approach using descriptive method. In this study data obtained by using data collection techniques such as documentation. The procedure of collecting data included seeking, selecting, reading, and identifying the data. In analyzing, the data were collected by reading and segmenting them into paragraphs. The cohesion analysis were conducted to figure out the types of cohesion found in the speech text. The argumentation is also given to support the comparison between the theories and the analysis. The study found that there were two types of cohesion found in the Soekarno’s speech, grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. The grammatical cohesion that used in speech consists of reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. Reference was found (793), substitution was found (18), ellipsis was found (52), and conjunction was found (239). The lexical cohesion that used in speech consists of reiteration and collocation. Reiteration was found (44) and collocation was found (25). From the result, it can be concluded that in Soekarno’s speech uses grammatical cohesion typed reference.