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Revised Dwikora Cabinet
The revised Dwikora Cabinet ( id, Kabinet Dwikora Yang Disempurnakan) was the Indonesian Cabinet which served under President Sukarno from February 1966 to March 1966. The Cabinet was formed under an extremely tense political situation and it was expected that this Cabinet would address the concerns of the people. It was during a meeting of this Cabinet that unidentified troops surrounded the Presidential Palace causing to Sukarno to escape to Bogor from where he gave Supersemar to Lieutenant General Suharto. President *President/Prime Minister/Supreme Commander of the National Armed Forces of the Republic/Mandatory of the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly (MPRS)/Great Leader of the Revolution: Sukarno Cabinet Presidium *First Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade: Subandrio *Second Deputy Prime Minister/Coordinating Minister of Distribution/Minister of Higher Education and Science: Johannes Leimena *Third Deputy Prime Minister/Chairman of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at . With over 275 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature. It has 38 provinces, of which nine have special status. The country's capital, Jakarta, is the world's second-most populous urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Palau, and India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirjono Prodjodikoro
Wirjono Prodjodikoro (15 June 1903 – April 1985) was the head justice of the Indonesian Supreme Court from 1952 to 1966. Biography Wirjono was born in Surakarta, Dutch East Indies, on 15 June 1903. After completing his primary education, he attended the Rechtsschool in Batavia, graduating in 1922. He then became a judge, later taking time to study at Leiden University in Leiden, Netherlands. Although Wirjono had already announced his candidacy for the People's Representative Council, in early 1952 he was selected as head justice of the Indonesian Supreme Court, replacing Kusumah Atmaja. During his time as head justice, the court was explicitly under the executive branch of the government. He was increasingly marginalized; for example, when he accompanied the Indonesian president to the United States in 1959, he sat with senators and congressmen, while his American counterpart, Earl Warren, was seated with Presidents Sukarno and Dwight D. Eisenhower. In another case, Sukarno in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruslan Abdulgani
Ruslan Abdulgani (November 24, 1914, Surabaya — June 29, 2005, Jakarta, his first name is also spelled Roeslan) was an Indonesian government official and diplomat known for his role as a leader during the Indonesian National Revolution in the late 1940s, and as a key minister and United Nations ambassador in the Sukarno government during the 1950s and 1960s. Roeslan was born and raised in Surabaya, East Java. He came from an upper-middle-class family; his father was a neighborhood shopkeeper and owned a small fleet of taxis. His mother, his father's second wife, was a religious tutor, giving reading and religion lessons from the Qur'an. According to a memoir of his childhood, which Roeslan wrote in the 1970s, his mother was also a strong Javanese nationalist, and it was from her that he first learned about Dutch colonial rule and the possibility of independence. During the Indonesian fight for independence from the Dutch in the late 1940s, Roeslan was a key lieutenant u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maladi
Raden Maladi (31 August 1912 – 30 April 2001) was an Indonesian athlete, songwriter, and politician. Interested in football from a young age, Maladi played in the Indonesian leagues beginning in 1930. In the 1940s he dabbled in songwriting and broadcasting before joining the ''pemuda'' troops during the Indonesian National Revolution. After a period heading the Football Association of Indonesia, he was selected as Minister of Information and, later, Minister of Sports. Early life Maladi was born in Surakarta, Central Java, on 31 August 1912. He was interested in football from a young age, playing as a goalkeeper. In 1930 he started with PSIM Yogyakarta, transferring to Persebaya Surabaya three years later and eventually becoming one of the top players in the league. He also played on the Indonesia national football team, using several pseudonyms. He also enjoyed refereeing games. By the 1940s Maladi, by then a teacher and already experienced in radio broadcasting, had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prijono
Prijono (20 July 1907 – 6 March 1969Vickers, Adrian. A History of Modern Indonesia'. Cambridge .a. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. pp. 146-147) was an Indonesian politician and academic. Prijono was a leading figure of the Murba Party and the Indonesian Peace Committee. Prijono served as Minister of Education and Culture between 1957 and 1966. He was one of the intellectual ideologues who surrounded President Sukarno. In December 1954 he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize.Australian Institute of International Affairs. The Australian Outlook', Volume 12-13. ydney Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1958. p. 265 Academic Prijono studied in Paris and obtained a Ph.D. at the Leiden University (studying medieval Javanese texts). In 1954 Prijono presented a proposal for a new orthography for Indonesian. Prijono suggested that letter combinations such as 'nj' and 'ng' be substituted with IPA characters. A similar orthography, 'Ejaan Kongres', was in use in Malaya. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satrio
Satrio (28 May 1916 – 5 May 1986) was an Indonesian military doctor. He served as Minister of Health during the Guided Democracy period, between 1959 and 1966, and as General Chairman of the Indonesian Red Cross between 1970 and 1982. A graduate of the Batavia Medical College during the Japanese occupation period, Satrio was an early member of the Indonesian Red Cross during the Indonesian National Revolution, active in Jakarta, Banten and West Java as a military doctor. After the revolution, he continued his career as an army doctor until his appointment as health minister. After a seven-year ministerial tenure, he returned to military service before heading the Indonesian Red Cross. Early life and education Satrio was born on 28 May 1916 in the village of Singojuruh within Banyuwangi Regency, today in East Java. He was the eldest of eight children, with his father working as a teacher. He completed his HIS elementary school there, before moving to Surabaya for his MULO mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rusiah Sardjono
Rusiah Sardjono ( – 13 November 1988) was an Indonesian politician who served as minister of social affairs from 1962 to 1966. She was one of the country's first female government ministers. Biography There are conflicting reports on Rusiah Sardjono's date of birth, with some sources indicating 1919 but others indicating 1921. During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, she was employed by a Japanese company before moving to the Indonesian Department of Justice, where she would work on and off for 20 years. She also worked for the High Court of Semarang during the height of the Indonesian National Revolution. In 1949, she became the first woman to graduate in law from what would become Gadjah Mada University. Sardjono was appointed minister of social affairs in 1962, in the later years of Sukarno's time in office as Indonesia's first president. While she was in office, Indonesian media commented on her then-unusual position as both a mother and a high-level po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muljadi Djojomartono
Muljadi Djojomartono ( EYD: Mulyadi Joyomartono; 3 May 189823 October 1967) was an Indonesian politician and military officer who served as Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare between 1960–1966 and Minister of Social Affairs between 1957 and 1962 and briefly in 1966. Affiliated with the Islamic organization Muhammadiyah, he had originated in Surakarta and served as a battalion commander in the Defenders of the Homeland organization, which resulted in his participation during the Indonesian National Revolution as an officer in his hometown. He was appointed as a minister by Sukarno despite protestations from his political party and Muhammadiyah, which opposed Muljadi's accommodation of Sukarno's actions. Early life Muljadi was born in Surakarta on 3 May 1898 and received education in Islamic institutions. Career Pre-independence For a time, he worked as an employee of the postal service. Muljadi helped with the 1934 founding of a radio station in Surakarta, the SRI ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Sadikin
Ali Sadikin (7 July 1926 – 20 May 2008), better known as Bang Ali, was an Indonesian politician who served as the fourth governor of Jakarta from 1966 until 1977. Prior to becoming governor, he served as Minister of Transportation from 1963 until 1966 and Coordinating Minister for Marine Affairs from 1964 until 1966. He also served as Chairman of the Football Association of Indonesia from 1977 until 1981. Born to parents of ethnic-Sundanese descent, Ali attended the Semarang Shipping Science Polytechnic during the Japanese occupation period. During the Indonesian National Revolution, he joined the People's Security Agency Navy, the predecessor to the Indonesian Navy, and fought against the Dutch during Operation Product and Operation Kraai. Following the end of the national revolution, Ali remained in the navy and fought against the Permesta rebel movement in the late 1950's. In 1963, he was appointed Minister of Transportation by President Sukarno. A year later, he was appoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gee Cheng
David Gee Cheng (1 September 191516 September 2005) was a Chinese-born Indonesian and American engineer and real estate developer who became the Indonesian Deputy Minister for City Planning and Construction from 1964 until 1966. Early life Cheng was born in Shanghai on 1 September 1915 from Tsi Fei and Wai Wen (Liang) Cheng. He studied at St. John's University in Shanghai and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1939. Career Cheng arrived in Indonesia in 1945 and later became the President of the National Housing Development Corporation in 1956. On 16 September 1959, Cheng applied for naturalization as an Indonesian citizen. His application was accepted by a presidential decree on 23 August 1961. Cheng was appointed by President Sukarno to head the new Department of City Planning and Construction as a deputy minister in the Dwikora Cabinet on 27 August 1964. According to minister Oei Tjoe Tat, Cheng was appointed by Sukarno after successfully straig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setiadi Reksoprodjo
Setiadi Reksoprodjo (18 September 1921 — 28 July 2010) was an Indonesian politician who served as Minister of Information in First Amir Sjarifuddin Cabinet, Junior Minister of Information in Second Amir Sjarifuddin Cabinet, member of the People's Consultative Assembly and the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia, Constitutional Assembly, and as the Minister of Electricity and Energy in Dwikora Cabinet (Dwikora I) and Revised Dwikora Cabinet (Dwikora II). Setiadi was 25 years and 7 months old when he was appointed as Minister of Information, making him the youngest minister in Indonesia up to this day. Setiadi was born on 18 September 1921, and died on 28 July 2010. He was buried in Kalibata Heroes Cemetery on 29 July 2010. Early life and education Setiadi Reksoprodjo was born on 18 September 1921 in Kutoarjo, Purworejo, Kutoarjo, a town in the Purworejo Regency of Central Java. He was the oldest son of Javanese people, Javanese aristocrat Soekirdjo Reksoprodjo and Koespirah S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibnu Sutowo
Ibnu Sutowo (23 September 1914 – 12 January 2001) was an Indonesian army officer, Cabinet Minister and former head of the Indonesian oil and gas producer Pertamina. Early life Ibnu was born near the Yogyakarta Sultan's palace on 23 September 1914. His father had been a regency head near the city of Semarang in Central Java. His privileged background at the time of the colonial Dutch East Indies allowed him to attend a superior Dutch school and then medical school in Surabaya.McDonald (1980), p. 144. Education and early career Upon graduation, Ibnu was assigned to a colony of Javanese transmigrants in Belitung in South Sumatra. During the Japanese occupation in World War II, Ibnu, like many indigenous Indonesians filling in for imprisoned Europeans, assumed many local administrative powers. By the time of Japan's surrender, he was a leader in irregular forces backing the Indonesian Republic in its fight for independence. On 12 September 1943, he married Zaleha, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
