Soeharto Sastrosoeyoso

Raden Soeharto Sastrosoeyoso (24 December 1908 – 30 November 2000) was an Indonesian doctor and a National hero of Indonesia. He was the founder of Indonesian Doctors Association and Bank Negara Indonesia.

Life

Sastrosoeyoso was born on 24 December 1908 at Tegalgondo, a village in Surakarta, Dutch East Indies, to Sastrosoeyoso. He starred his education by went into Europe Lasgere School, and later graduated from Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs school in Malang. Sastrosoeyoso then attended Algemeene Middelbare School in Yogyakarta, and later continued his higher study on Fakultas Medica Bataviensis at Geneeskundige Hoogeschool te Batavia in Batavia, where he earned his medical degree on 25 May 1935, and received Medicina Doctoren title on 14 April 1937.

After completed his study, he started his practice as a clinician in Kramat, Senen, Central Jakarta. He met President Sukarno, where he later became a private doctor for him. Sastrosoeyoso also had a close relationship with Sukarno where he often called him Mas Karno, and also went to became a private doctor for Indonesia first Vice President Mohammad Hatta. He began to wrote his experience as the private doctor of the two proclaimers and later published it into his autobiography, ''Saksi Sejarah'', in 1982. After the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, Sastrosoeyoso helped in managing finances of the newly established republic and to arrange various expenses to run the government, where he donated his sedan car to Sukarno in order to help run the government.

In 1950, Sastrosoeyoso was one of the founder of Indonesian Doctors Association, where he arranged a meeting at his house with all of the Indonesian doctors, who then agreed to propose the establishment of Indonesian Doctors Association.
Later, he was appointed to became the Minister of People's Industry from 1959 until 1962. After his term ended, Sastrosoeyoso was appointed again to serve as a minister for three times, such as: Minister of Trade, Minister of Issuance of Banks and Private Capital, and Coordinating Minister of National Development Planning Affairs.

Sastrosoeyoso also founded the Bank Negara Indonesia, and contributed in the development of Sarinah Thamrin Jakarta area and in Hotel Indonesia construction project. He was also the pioneer of the family planning program in Indonesia, where he later founded Indonesian Family Planning Association. Sastrosoeyoso died in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 30 November 2000 at the age of 91.

Family

Sastrosoeyoso was married to Titi Paraati on 13 October 1933, and has had three children: Semiarto Soeharto (1933–1999), Pratiwi Soeharto, and Paraati Soeharto (d. 2010). They divorced on 26 May 1962. His only son, Semiarto, was married to actress Mimi Mariani and has had three children with her.

Sastrosoeyoso second marriage was to Sinta Tedjasukmana on 29 December 1962, and remained together until her death in 1993.

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1908 births
2000 deaths
20th-century Dutch East Indies people
20th-century Indonesian physicians
People from Surakarta
National Heroes of Indonesia
Indonesian physicians
Government ministers of Indonesia