Sutan syahrir biography books

Indonesian politician and independence leader

Sutan Sjahrir^[a] (5 March – 9 April ) was an Indonesian politician and revolutionary independence leader who served as the first Prime Minister of Indonesia from until Previously, he was a key Indonesian nationalist organizer in the s and s. 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. Towards independence on 17 August , he was

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