18 Facts About Anwar Tjokroaminoto

Oetarjo Anwar Tjokroaminoto was an Indonesian politician and journalist.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto served as Minister of Social Affairs for a year in the Wilopo Cabinet and was the Prime Minister of Pasundan for less than a month during January 1950.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto worked for the Asia Raya newspaper during the Japanese occupation period, and he was managing editor for Pemandangan.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto was part of the government of the State of Pasundan and was appointed prime minister, though suspicions after the APRA coup d'etat resulted in Pasundan's dissolution shortly afterward.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto then rejoined the government as a legislator, and by 1952 he obtained a cabinet post as Minister of Social Affairs in the Wilopo Cabinet where he was reshuffled after a year.

PSII later fractured in 1972, and Anwar Tjokroaminoto became a leader in one of the two competing factions until he died in 1975.

Oetarjo Anwar Tjokroaminoto was born in Surabaya on 3 May 1909, as the second child and eldest son of Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto was educated in Dutch schools before later enrolling at Douwes Dekker's Teacher's Training School, where he studied journalism and graduated in 1940.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto worked at this newspaper until the Japanese invasion of the Indies.

In 1941, Anwar Tjokroaminoto was working at the Pemandangan newspaper as managing editor.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto was then appointed to the "Army Political Education Staff" and was given a nominal rank of major general, despite having no military experience.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto was later honorably discharged from his military assignment, and afterward, he returned to journalism for some time, managing the al-Djihad daily newspaper.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto joined the Second Amir Sjarifuddin Cabinet as a minister of state in 1947, without a portfolio.

On 9 January 1950, Anwar Tjokroaminoto was appointed as the Prime Minister of Pasundan, replacing Djumhana Wiriaatmadja who had resigned.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto won a legislator seat representing South Sumatra in the 1955 legislative election.

In 1966, the last year of Sukarno's presidency, Anwar Tjokroaminoto criticized the government's foreign policy, especially under foreign minister Subandrio.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto's statement pointed at Indonesia's isolation internationally, in addition to heavy deficits and inflation.

Anwar Tjokroaminoto then called for the formation of a proper representative cabinet, instead of the interim cabinet then.