Sutan Syahrir

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Sutan Syahrir, 1960

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

Life

Syahrir grew up in a Minangkabau family in Sumatra and studied first in Medan and Bandung , then in the Netherlands in Amsterdam and Leiden . There he met Mohammad Hatta , both of whom worked together for Indonesian independence in the period that followed. In 1931 Syahrir returned to Indonesia. After the end of the old PNI party, he and Hatta founded the new Pendidikan Nasional Indonesia (PNI). He and Hatta were arrested in 1934 and sent into exile: from January 1935 in Boven Digoel on Papua , from January 1936 to February 1942 to Banda Neira and until March 1942 in Sukabumi on West Java , where he was freed from the Japanese conquerors in 1942 has been.

In 1945 he wrote his most important work "Onze Strijd" ( Our Struggle ) in Dutch , 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 took action against the Indonesian representatives and arrested Syahrir as well. 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 he was jailed in 1962. In 1965 he suffered a stroke and flew to Zurich for medical treatment , where he died in 1966.

literature

  • Anderson, Benedict R. O'G .: Java in a time of revolution: occupation and resistance, 1944-1946 . Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1972.
  • Hamid Algadri: Prime Minister Sjahrir, as Statesman and Diplomat: How the Allies became friends of Indonesia and opponents of the Dutch . Pustaka, Jakarta, 1994, ISBN 979-8391-41-1 .
  • Rudolf Mrázek: Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia . Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Ithaca, 1994, ISBN 978-0-87727-713-2 ( online version at Google Books)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 300 Multiple Choices. In: uni-muenster.de. Retrieved February 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Since everyone is looking away . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1948 ( online ).


personal data
SURNAME Syahrir, Sutan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indonesian politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Padang Panjang in Sumatra
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1966
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland