1. Colonel Dahlan Djambek was a military officer, independence fighter, and minister in the Cabinet of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia.
12 Facts About Dahlan Djambek
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Dahlan Djambek was born in 1917 at Bukittinggi, the son of a Minangkabau cleric, Sheikh Muhammad Jamil Jambek.
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Dahlan Djambek was later reassigned to head the army subcommand in Central Sumatra, while the division's command itself was transferred to Ismail Lengah.
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Dahlan Djambek was in Jakarta in early 1948, taking part in negotiations with the Dutch as an envoy of the Sumatran army command along with Maludin Simbolon.
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Dahlan Djambek was near Bukittinggi during the offensive, and he aided the demoralized soldiers in reforming their units and allowed Indonesian forces to maintain control of regions north of Bukittinggi.
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Dahlan Djambek was appointed as military regent of Agam Regency surrounding Bukittinggi by military governor Sutan Mohammad Rasjid.
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Dahlan Djambek was then appointed as deputy Army Chief of Staff, handling financial affairs.
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Dahlan Djambek resigned this post after he was accused of corruption in the purchase of military shoes.
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Dahlan Djambek resigned after months of attacks by pro-Communist Party of Indonesia newspapers and his house was attacked with grenades by unknown assailants.
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Together with Gebak, Dahlan Djambek expanded the anti-communist movement in West Sumatra and accused the PKI of being the cause of the Sukarno-Hatta rift.
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Dahlan Djambek was involved in the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia, a rival government proclaimed by several figures in West Sumatra in 1958, due to dissatisfaction with the Old Order government led by President Sukarno.
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When he was about to surrender in 1961, Dahlan Djambek was shot and killed in the village of Lariang, Palupuh, Agam by OPR troops, a paramilitary force affiliated to the Communist Party of Indonesia and trained by the central government.