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Sutan Sjahrir | |
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1st Prime Minister of Indonesia | |
In office 14 November 1945 – 3 July 1947 | |
President | Soekarno |
Preceded by | Office created |
Succeeded by | Amir Sjarifoeddin |
2nd Interior Minister of Indonesia | |
In office 14 November 1945 – 12 March 1946 | |
President | Soekarno |
Preceded by | Wiranatakusumah V |
Succeeded by | Sudarsono |
2nd Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia | |
In office 14 November 1945 – 3 July 1947 | |
President | Soekarno |
Preceded by | Achmad Soebardjo |
Succeeded by | Agus Salim |
Personal details | |
Born | 5 March 1909(1909-03-05) Padang Pandjang, Dutch East Indies |
Died | 9 April 1973(1973-04-09) (aged 64) Jakarta, Indonesia |
Resting place | Kalibata Heroes Cemetery |
Nationality | Indonesian |
Political party | Indonesian National Party |
Spouse(s) | Maria Duchateau Siti Wahyunah |
Profession | Politician |
Sutan Sjahrir (5 March 1909 – 9 April 1973) was an Indonesian polit
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Sutan Sjahrir
Indonesian politician and independence leader
Sutan Sjahrir[a] (5 March 1909 – 9 April 1966) was an Indonesian politician and revolutionary independence leader who served as the first Prime Minister of Indonesia from 1945 until 1947. Previously, he was a key Indonesian nationalist organizer in the 1930s and 1940s. Unlike some of his colleagues, he did not support the Japanese during the Japanese occupation and fought in the resistance against them. He was considered to be an idealist and an intellectual.
Born to a Minangkabau family, he studied at the University of Amsterdam and later became a lag student at Leiden University. He became involved in Socialist politics, and Indonesia's struggle for independence, becoming a close associate of the older independence activist Mohammad Hatta, who would later become the first Vice President of Indonesia. During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Sjahrir fought in the resistance. Towards indepen
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Sjahrir (economist)
Indonesian political economist
This article is about the Indonesian economist. For Sukarno era prime minister, see Sutan Sjahrir.
Sjahrir (24 February 1945 – 28 July 2008) was a prominent Indonesian political economist. He was officially appointed by President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as Economic Adviser in the Council of Presidential Advisers on 11 April 2007.[1] As a student activist, he was once sentenced to jail during the Malari demonstration in 1974.
Biography
[edit]Sjahrir was born in Kudus, Central Java, during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, on February 24, 1945. Syahrir (nicknamed: Ciil[2] or Ci'il) was born as the only child to Ma’amoen Al Rasyid and Roesma Malik, both from the village of Koto Gedang in West Sumatra. His father was a high-ranking government official in Central Java during the Dutch Colonial Era, while his mother was an official at the Inspectorate of Women