Biography sutan syahrir pahlawan

Indonesian politician and independence leader

Sutan Sjahrir^[a] (5 March 1909 – 9 April 1966) was an Indonesian politician and revolutionary independence leader who served as the first Prime Minister of Indonesia from 1945 until 1947.

Previously, he was a key Indonesian nationalist organizer in the 1930s and 1940s.

Biography sutan syahrir pahlawan

Unlike some of his colleagues, he did not support the Japanese during the Japanese occupation and fought in the resistance against them. He was considered to be an idealist and an intellectual.

Born to a Minangkabau family, he studied at the University of Amsterdam and later became a law student at Leiden University.

He became involved in Socialist politics, and Indonesia's struggle for independence, becoming a close associate of the older independence activist Mohammad Hatta, who would later become the first Vice President of Indonesia. During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Sjahrir fought in the resistance.

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