1. Raden Maladi was an Indonesian athlete, songwriter, and politician.
12 Facts About Maladi
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Interested in football from a young age, Maladi played in the Indonesian leagues beginning in 1930.
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Maladi was born in Surakarta, Central Java, on 31 August 1912.
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Maladi was interested in football from a young age, playing as a goalkeeper.
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Maladi played on the Indonesia national football team, using several pseudonyms.
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Maladi became involved in the Olympics, supervising Indonesia's first delegation at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, as well as the delegation at the 1956 Olympics.
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Maladi left the position in 1959, when he moved to Jakarta, but remained an honorary board member.
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In Jakarta Maladi became the director general of RRI while serinvg as Minister of Information in the Second Working Cabinet, beginning on 10 July 1959; he had grown to be a close confidante of President Sukarno, and had held the post of deputy minister in the previous cabinet.
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On 6 March 1962 Maladi was made Minister of Sports in the Third Working Cabinet, before the television program came to fruit.
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Maladi survived several reshuffles before the post was dissolved in the Second Revised Dwikora Cabinet on 27 March 1966.
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Maladi died on 30 April 2001 after spending two weeks in intensive care for breathing difficulties at Medistra Hospital in Jakarta.
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Maladi was survived by his wife Siti Khadijah and nine children.