1. Setiadi Reksoprodjo was an Indonesian politician who served as Minister of Information in First Amir Sjarifuddin Cabinet, Junior Minister of Information in Second Amir Sjarifuddin Cabinet, member of the People's Consultative Assembly and the Constitutional Assembly, and as the Minister of Electricity and Energy in Dwikora Cabinet and Revised Dwikora Cabinet.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was born on 18 September 1921, and died on 28 July 2010.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was buried in Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery on 29 July 2010.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was born on 18 September 1921 in Kutoarjo, a town in the Purworejo Regency of Central Java.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was the oldest son of Javanese aristocrat Soekirdjo Reksoprodjo and Koespirah Soemodidjojo.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo enrolled at the Semarang Hogere Burgerschool in 1933.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo graduated from the school in 1938 with a score of 8,37 at the final exam, the highest score in the exam.
In 1938, Setiadi Reksoprodjo entered the Technical High School of Bandung.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was involved in politics, and joined the Indonesian Socialist Party.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was appointed as the Chairman of the Indonesian National Committee of Cirebon and as the Chairman of the Cirebon Defence Council.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was credited for the development of radio broadcasting in Cirebon.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo established the Information Radio of Cirebon, Cirebon's first radio station, which was later merged to Radio Republik Indonesia.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo, who was 25 years and 9 months old at that time, was appointed as the Minister of Information, making him the youngest minister in the cabinet and in the history of Indonesia.
Sjahbuddin was appointed as the Minister of Information, while Setiadi Reksoprodjo became the junior minister.
In 1954, Setiadi Reksoprodjo ran in the Indonesian Constitutional Assembly election, even though he was not a member of the Communist Party of Indonesia he was nominated as candidate number 22 by the party, representing West Java.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo won a seat and was sworn in on 9 November 1956.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo supported the restoration of the 1945 State Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and the dissolution of the Constitutional Assembly.
Several months later, Setiadi Reksoprodjo was appointed by President Sukarno as Jakarta's Regional Delegate to the People's Consultative Assembly.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was inaugurated on 15 September 1960 and held the office until his appointment as minister.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was involved in the establishment of the Indonesian Peace Committee, the council's branch in Indonesia, and became the chairman of the committee.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo then left the position after he became a World Peace Council executive committee member and was replaced by Mrs Ratu Amina Hidajat.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo later became vice president of the World Peace Council based in Geneva where the International President at that time was Frederic Joliot-Curie, the son in law of Marie Curie.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was appointed as the Ministry of Electricity and Energy on the same day as the reorganization.
When Setiadi Reksoprodjo was appointed again for the same office in Sukarno's revised cabinet, a wave of protests surfaced from employees at the ministry.
The demand was made because of the military screening team inside each ministry at that time made allegations that Setiadi Reksoprodjo gave support to Central All-Indonesian Workers Organization and his activity in the Association of Indonesian College Students.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo's ministry was criticized for its alleged miscoordination with the Ministry of Irrigation during the construction of the power station in Jatiluhur Dam.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was imprisoned in the Nirbaya Detention Centre without any proper trial.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was freed on 20 December 1977 after being imprisoned for almost 12 years.
The Governor of Jakarta at that time, Ali Sadikin, intervened and instructed the Lurah to visit Setiadi Reksoprodjo and give him the permanent identity card.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo stated that a lot of Indonesian laws had to be repealed in order for the ex-detainees to get their full rights.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo died at 10.05 on 28 July 2010 on his house in Menteng, Jakarta.
Setiadi Reksoprodjo was buried a day later in the Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery.