Sutan Sjahrir

Sutan Syahrir, also Sjahrir, ( born March 5, 1909 in Padang Panjang in Sumatra, † April 9, 1966 in Zurich ) was a politician in the early days of Indonesia.

Life

Syahrir grew up in a family Minangkabau in Sumatra and studied first in Medan and Bandung, then in the Netherlands in Amsterdam and Leiden. There he met Mohammad Hatta know, both worked together in the aftermath of the Indonesian independence. 1931 Syahrir returned back to Indonesia. After the end of the old party " PNI " Hatta and he founded the new " Pendidikan Nasional Indonesia ( PNI) ". Together with Hatta, he was arrested in 1934 and sent into exile: in January 1935 in Boven Digoel to Papua, from January 1936 to February 1942 to Banda Neira and until March 1942 in Sukabumi in West Java, where he was liberated in 1942 by the Japanese invaders been.

In 1945 he wrote his most important work in Dutch " Onze Strijd " (Our Struggle), which was immediately translated into Indonesian ( " Perdjoeangan Kita "). From November 1945 to June 1947 he was the first Indonesian Prime Minister, but the Netherlands were not yet ready to recognize the new state. In 1948 the Dutch military back against the representatives of Indonesia before and also arrested Syahrir. In the same year he founded the " Socialist Party of Indonesia " (PSI). Later, he came into conflict with Sukarno, his party was banned in 1960 and in 1962 he came to prison. In 1965 he suffered a stroke and flew for medical treatment to Zurich, where he died in 1966.

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