1. Daan Jahja or Daan Yahya was an Indonesian military officer who was the Chief of Staff of the Siliwangi Division in 1948 and the Military Governor of Jakarta from 1949 to 1950.
16 Facts About Daan Jahja
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Daan Jahja participated in the Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference, and was appointed military governor of Jakarta following his return.
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Daan Jahja retired as a brigadier general, and died in 1985.
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Daan Jahja was born on 5 January 1925 in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, from a Minangkabau family.
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Daan Jahja's father Jahja Datoek Kajo was a member of the Volksraad and was a strong proponent of Indonesian nationalism.
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Daan Jahja studied at the Konig Wilhelm III school in Batavia, and later at the Batavia Medical School where he was part of the non-political Unitas Studiosorum Indonesiensis.
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Daan Jahja was later expelled from the medical school for leading a student protest.
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Daan Jahja had received training from PETA during the Japanese occupation, and upon its disbandment Daan Jahja was involved in setting up the People's Security Agency.
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Daan Jahja led an internal, non-violent coup in the Tangerang Regiment in late April 1946, becoming its next commander.
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Later on, the regiment was merged with the ones in Sukabumi and Bogor, with Daan Jahja being detached, initially assisting with reorganisation of other units before being assigned command of the 3rd brigade based in Purwakarta.
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Daan Jahja was again removed from his post following an incident with the irregular militia Laskar Rakyat Djakarta Raya.
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Daan Jahja later became the Chief of Staff of the Siliwangi Division, replacing Abdul Harris Nasution.
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At one point, Daan Jahja became the military attache for the Indonesian embassy in Cairo.
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Daan Jahja retired from his military position as a Brigadier General.
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Daan Jahja briefly served in the People's Representative Council between 1967 and 1969, but following the replacement of Sukarno with Suharto, he decided to withdraw from politics.
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Daan Jahja died on 20 June 1985 from a heart attack after he had just concluded Eid al-Fitr prayers at Sunda Kelapa Mosque in North Jakarta.