Raden Agustinus Suhardi (1899–1988) was a professor at
Gadjah Mada University and fifth Agrarian Minister of Indonesia.
Biography
Suhardi was born in
Klaten
Klaten Regency ( jv, ꦏ꧀ꦭꦛꦺꦤ꧀, Klathèn) is a Regencies of Indonesia, regency in Central Java province in Indonesia. It covers an area of 655.56 km2 and had a population of 1,130,047 at the 2010 Census and 1,260,506 at the 2020 ...
,
Central Java
Central Java ( id, Jawa Tengah) is a province of Indonesia, located in the middle of the island of Java. Its administrative capital is Semarang. It is bordered by West Java in the west, the Indian Ocean and the Special Region of Yogyakarta in t ...
in 1899. He first studied at a school for
native Indonesians, before moving to nearby
Yogyakarta to study at a ''Meer uitgebreid lager onderwijs'' (middle school) there. For high school, he moved to
Batavia (modern day Jakarta) and attended Canisius College. He then attended legal school, the ''Recht Hooge School'', there.
Suhardi first found employment as a judge at a Dutch court in
Tangerang,
West Java. In 1946, he was transferred to
Boyolali, Central Java, to head the court there. The following year he was transferred to Ngawi,
East Java, to head the military court there. He later became the first Agrarian Minister of Indonesia. At the time he was also a lecturer at
Gadjah Mada University (UGM).
Suhardi was a member of the UGM team that framed the Fundamental Agrarian Law in 1959. He was also a participant in the
Asian–African Conference and part of the Catholic Faction in the
Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia.
Suhardi died in 1988.
Personal life
Suhardi was married to Agustina Siti Ruwiyah. Together they had five children.
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1899 births
1988 deaths
Academic staff of Gadjah Mada University
Government ministers of Indonesia
People from Klaten Regency
Members of the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia