21 Facts About Surachman Tjokroadisurjo

Panji Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was an Indonesian politician and academic.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo served in a number of cabinets during the Indonesian National Revolution, as the Minister of Welfare and later the Minister of Finance.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo returned to the East Indies in 1920, and worked for the Dutch government until the Japanese invasion.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo remained active in government afterwards, and was appointed as the first Rector of the University of Indonesia.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo died in 1952 during a diplomatic mission to the Netherlands.

Raden Mas Panji Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was born in Wonosobo, Dutch East Indies, on 30 August 1894.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was a descendant of Yogyakarta Sultan Hamengkubuwono II, and he had twelve siblings.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo studied at an Europeesche Lagere School before continuing to a Hogere Burgerschool in Batavia.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo graduated in 1920, and became the first Indonesian chemical engineer.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo had been offered a job in the police department, but Surachman refused the job.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was later relocated again to Yogyakarta before returning to Bogor.

Shortly after the proclamation of Indonesian independence, Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was appointed as Minister for Economic Affairs on 19 August 1945 in the Presidential Cabinet.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was replaced by Darmawan Mangunkusumo when the cabinet fell in November 1945.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was reappointed into the new cabinet led by Sutan Sjahrir as Minister of Finance to replace the sick Sunarjo Kolopaking on 8 December 1945.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo retained this post in the Second Sjahrir Cabinet.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo announced a 45 percent increase in the salaries of high level civil servants in order to attract skilled bureaucrats.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was replaced as finance minister by his deputy Sjafruddin Prawiranegara on 2 October 1946 upon the formation of the Third Sjahrir Cabinet.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was still active in government affairs, and after a large-scale Dutch offensive in 1947 seized much Indonesian-held territory, he formed a private company to accommodate the now-unemployed Republican civil servants around Jakarta.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo died on 16 November 1952 in The Hague from hypertension, whilst on a diplomatic mission to negotiate the nationalization of Dutch tin mining companies in Indonesia.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo married in 1922 while he was working in Bandung.

Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was the sole daughter of the regent of Grobogan at the time.