1. Tadjuddin Noor was an Indonesian politician and nationalist.
12 Facts About Tadjuddin Noor
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Tadjuddin Noor was a deputy speaker of the Provisional People's Representative Council between 1950 and 1956, and chaired the legislature of the State of East Indonesia.
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Tadjuddin Noor became a senator after the 1949 transfer of sovereignty, and continued to be active in politics during the 1950s as a member of the Constitutional Assembly.
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Tadjuddin Noor was born in Pegatan, in what is today South Kalimantan, on 16 April 1906.
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Tadjuddin Noor began his term as a member of the Nationalist faction led by Mohammad Husni Thamrin called the, but only a few months later in the summer of 1939 he left it and joined a breakaway Sumatran group called the, which was chaired by Mangaradja Soeangkoepon.
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In one of these cabinets, Tadjuddin Noor was proposed as a deputy-minister of state.
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Tadjuddin Noor was initially an adviser to the Imperial Japanese Army in the-renamed Jakarta, before later being appointed by the Imperial Japanese Navy, alongside Manadonese Sam Ratulangi, as advisers in managing Sulawesi, which the navy was tasked with occupying.
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Tadjuddin Noor was head of the Indonesian National Party in Makassar.
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Later that month, Tadjuddin Noor ran as one of two candidates for the head of state of the newly formed State of East Indonesia, but narrowly lost to Tjokorda Gde Raka Soekawati following three rounds of voting.
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Tadjuddin Noor had called for the resignation of the Sukiman Cabinet in December 1951, and during the First Ali Sastroamidjojo Cabinet, a dispute on whether PIR should continue to support the Ali government after losing ministerial posts resulted in the party's split, with one faction under Wongsonegoro and another under Noor and Hazairin.
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The Wongsonegoro faction was the dominant faction for the party's Javanese members, while the Hazairin-Tadjuddin Noor faction derived its support from party offices outside Java.
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Tadjuddin Noor wrote a book, titled The roads to world peace, world prosperity, and social justice, published in 1974.