Kanjeng Raden Tumenggung (K.R.T.) Radjiman Wedyodiningrat (21 April 1879 – 20 September 1952) was an Indonesian

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and one of the founding figures of the

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. He was a member of the

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organization, in 1945 was elected to lead the

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(BPUPK). On 9 August 1945, the day after the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Rajiman, along with nationalist figures Sukarno and

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were flown to Saigon to meet with Field Marshall

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, the Japanese commander of the

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. In 1950, having become a member of the legislature, the People's Representative Council (DPR), he led its first plenary session. Two years later, Rajiman died and was buried in

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. He was named a

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on 8 November 2013.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wedyodiningrat, Radjiman National Heroes of Indonesia 1879 births 1952 deaths BPUPK 20th-century Indonesian physicians People from Yogyakarta Indonesian Freemasons Members of the Volksraad (Dutch East Indies)