1. Basuki Rahmat was born in Tuban, East Java, and became a source of great pride for its people.
20 Facts About Basuki Rahmat
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Basuki Rahmat's name has been commemorated as the name of a major street in nearly every city in Indonesia.
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Basuki Rahmat was born on 4 November 1921 in Tuban, East Java.
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When he was seven, Basuki was sent to elementary school.
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Basuki Rahmat was sent to live with his paternal aunt and finished his education, graduating from junior high school in 1939 and from the Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah school in 1942, just as the Japanese invasion of Indonesia started.
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In 1943, during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Basuki Rahmat joined the Defenders of the Motherland Army, an auxiliary force ran by the Japanese to train extra soldiers in the case of an allied invasion of Java.
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On 5 October 1945, the People's Security Army was formed, with Basuki Rahmat enlisting with TKR on the same month at the town of Ngawi in his native province of East Java.
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In September 1956, Basuki Rahmat was transferred to Melbourne, Australia to serve as a military attache to the embassy there.
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In September 1965, Basuki Rahmat grew wary of communist activities in East Java and went to Jakarta to report his observations to the Commander of the Army, Ahmad Yani.
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Basuki Rahmat went to the Kostrad headquarters to find that the commander of Kostrad, Major General Suharto, had decided to assume the leadership of the Army and take control of the situation.
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This, Basuki Rahmat conveyed to the 530th Battalion who treated him with the utmost respect.
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In November 1965, Basuki Rahmat was transferred to Jakarta and became a staff member for Suharto who was now the Commander of the Army, taking on the position of deputy chief of staff for finance and civil relations.
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Basuki Rahmat become active as a member of the Social-Political Committee, the Army political think-tank which Suharto set up after he had become Commander of the Army.
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In February 1966, in a Cabinet Reshuffle, Basuki Rahmat was named Minister of Veterans' Affairs.
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On 11 March 1966, Basuki Rahmat attended a cabinet meeting at the Merdeka Palace, the first since Sukarno reshuffled the cabinet at the end of February.
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Basuki Rahmat was then updated on what had happened and was informed that Sukarno had left for Bogor by helicopter because it was not secure in Jakarta.
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That night, the three Generals immediately went to the Kostrad Headquarters and Basuki Rahmat handed the letter to Suharto.
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Basuki Rahmat served as Minister of Home Affairs, starting with Suharto's first Cabinet in March 1966 to the one which he named in June 1968 when he was officially the president.
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Basuki Rahmat died on 8 January 1969 while still holding his office as Minister of Home Affairs.
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Basuki Rahmat was replaced by Amir Machmud in this position.