Frans Lodewijk Johannis Tutuhatunewa (16 or 26 June 1923 – 22 October 2016)
was the fourth president in exile of the

Republic of the South Moluccas South Maluku, also South Moluccas, officially the Republic of South Maluku, was an unrecognised secessionist republic that claimed the islands of Ambon, Buru, and Seram, which make up the Indonesian province of Maluku. Dutch conquest exerte ...

between 1993 and 2010. He was born in

Batavia Batavia may refer to: Historical places * Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands * Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East In ...

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

. He was preceded by

Johan Manusama Johannes Alvarez Manusama (17 August 1910 – 29 December 1995) was a former schoolteacher and freemason, RMS Minister of Education and Minister of Defence (1950), was the third president of the Republic of South Moluccas (1966–1993). His ...

and succeeded by

John Wattilete John Wattilete (born ''Johannes Gerardus (John) Wattilete'' in Bemmel, Gelderland, Netherlands, January 25, 1955) is the fifth and incumbent president in exile of the Republic of South Maluku (or South Moluccas, id, Republik Maluku Selatan, RMS) ...

in 2010.

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1923 births 2016 deaths Presidents of the Republic of South Maluku Moluccan independence activists Indonesian politicians People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni {{Indonesia-politician-stub