12 Facts About Sidik Djojosukarto

Sidik Djojosukarto was an Indonesian politician who served as chairman of the Indonesian National Party from 1950 until his death.

Sidik Djojosukarto died of hypertension on 8 September 1955, while campaigning during the 1955 Indonesian legislative election.

Sidik Djojosukarto was born to a small merchant family on 7 June 1908, in Blitar, East Java, in what was then the Dutch East Indies.

Sidik Djojosukarto began his education at a Hollandsch-Inlandsche School in Blitar before then attending the Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs school in Kediri and later Madiun, where he graduated in 1927.

In 1950, Sidik Djojosukarto was officially elected party chairman in the PNI's fourth congress in Yogyakarta.

Sidik Djojosukarto represented the radical nationalist wing of the PNI, and during his leadership, the wing increased its control over the party, spearheading the drive for the creation of a unitary state, and opposing both the Hatta and Natsir cabinets.

Sidik Djojosukarto announced a PNI program of action if its members entered the government, the program included the liquidation of the Netherlands-Indonesia Union and the revision of the Round Table Conference.

When Prawoto and Sidik Djojosukarto failed to reach an agreement, Sukarno appointed former Labor Minister Wilopo as formateur.

Sidik Djojosukarto died on 8 September 1955, at the same hospital.

Sidik Djojosukarto's body was buried in his family's grave in Blitar on 9 September 1955.

Sidik Djojosukarto stated that the passing of Sidik Djojosukarto called Natsir a great loss for his family and his party.

Sidik Djojosukarto's death became headline news in several PNI-affiliated newspapers, including the left-wing nationalist Berita Indonesia paper.