1st Speaker of the People's Representative Council
In office 23 February 1950 – 24 June 1960
Preceded by
Office created
Succeeded by
Zainul Arifin
Legislative offices
Member of the People's Representative Council
In office 15 February 1950 – 24 June 1960
Member of the Central Indonesian National Committee
In office 29 August 1945 – 15 February 1950
Advisory offices
Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Advisory Council
In office 6 March 1962 – 14 February 1968
Member of the Supreme Advisory Council
In office 6 March 1962 – 14 February 1968
Member of the Central Advisory Council
In office 4 October 1943 – 17 August 1945
Personal details
Born
(1900-08-05)5 August 1900 Wonogiri, Dutch East Indies
Died
15 October 1968(1968-10-15) (aged 68) Jakarta, Indonesia
Resting place
Astana Bibis Luhur
Political party
Indonesian National Party (1927–1931; 1945–1968)
Other political affiliations
Partindo (1931–1937)
Gerindo (1937–1942)
Spouse
Siti Zaenab
(m. 1930)
Children
3
Alma mater
Leiden University (Mr.)
Occupation
Politician
lawyer
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Sartono (5 August 1900 – 15 October 1968) was an Indonesian politician and lawyer who served as the first speaker of the People's Representative Council (DPR) from 1950 until 1960. Born to a noble ethnic-Javanese family, Sartono studied law at Leiden University. During his studies, he joined the Perhimpoenan Indonesia association and became an advocate for Indonesian independence. After graduating, he opened a law practice and helped found the Indonesian National Party (PNI) in 1927. When several party leaders were arrested by the colonial government in 1929, he became one of their defense lawyers and unsuccessfully argued for their acquittal. Following the arrest of its leaders, PNI became paralyzed and the party subsequently suspended its activities. In its place, Sartono founded a new political party, Partindo, which sought to achieve independence through non-cooperation and mass action. Partindo lasted until 1936, when it decided to dissolve itself. After Partindo's dissolution, Sartono helped found another party, Gerindo, which advocated for the creation of an Indonesian parliament.
Following the Japanese invasion of the colony in 1942, Sartono briefly left politics, before returning to serve as the general-secretary of a Japan-founded labor organization, Putera, in 1943. He subsequently served in several positions during the Japanese occupation period, including as a member of the Central Advisory Council and Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence. After the proclamation of Indonesian independence in 1945, he was appointed one of five ministers of state in the Presidential Cabinet by Sukarno. As minister, Sartono was dispatched to the Yogyakarta Sultanate and Surakarta Sunanate to shore up support for the nationalist government. During the subsequent national revolution, he became a member of the Central Indonesian National Committee (KNIP), the provisional legislature, and served in the KNIP's working body, which ran the legislature's day-to-day affairs. He then served as an advisor to the Indonesian delegation of the Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference before being elected speaker of the DPR of the United States of Indonesia in February 1950.
Sartono served as speaker of the DPR throughout the entirety of the liberal democracy period, being re-elected in August 1950, when the Provisional DPR was formed following the transition into a unitary state, and again in 1956, after legislative elections were held. Following the fall of Mohammad Natsir's Cabinet in 1951, Sartono was appointed formateur by Sukarno. His efforts were thwarted due to policy differences between the two largest parties, the PNI and Masyumi Party, and he returned his mandate after less than a month. Following Mohammad Hatta's resignation from the vice presidency in 1956, Sartono was legally second in the presidential line of succession and he conducted presidential duties on multiple occasions. In 1960, the DPR was suspended by Sukarno as it rejected the government’s budget. Sartono was deeply embittered by the DPR's suspension, and he subsequently resigned from the DPR and did not take public office for several years. In 1962, Sartono accepted an offer by Sukarno to serve as the deputy chairman of the Supreme Advisory Council (DPA). His time in the body "confused and irritated him,"[1] and he eventually resigned from the DPA in 1968. He died in Jakarta, on 15 October 1968, and was buried at Astana Bibis Luhur, Surakarta.
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of the mandibular discoveries. This mandible and ramus was acquired by Sartono in 1993, and has been dated to between 1.4 and 0.9 million years ago. The...
2001): A name based on the Sambungmacan 3 cranium. H. e. ngandongensis (Sartono 1976): A name that was used in the process of splitting Pithecanthropus...
February 2024. Raun, pp. 45–60. Hildermeier (2016), p. 892. Kartodirdjo, Sartono (1966). The Peasants' revolt of Banten in 1888. Koninklijk Instituut. Yeoman...
on 21 February 1950, with Sartono, Albert Mangaratua Tambunan, and Mohammad Yamin as the candidates for the speaker. Sartono came out as the winner of...
disproved it, at least for the early part of the hominid fossil record"]. Sartono, S. (1975). "Implications arising from Pithecanthropus VIII". In Russell...
the Chinese variety being referred to as Homo erectus pekinensis. See: Sartono, S. (12 May 2011). "Implications arising from Pithecanthropus VIII". In...
different parties; the Indonesia Party (Partindo) under Sukarno's associate Sartono who were promoting mass agitation, and the Indonesian Nationalist Education...
November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2019 – via Springer. Kartodirjo, Sartono (1966). The peasants' revolt of Banten in 1888 : its conditions, course...
without portfolio that ever existed in Indonesian history. Mohammad Amir Sartono Alexander Andries Maramis Oto Iskandar di Nata Rasjidi (on religious affairs)...
Kompas. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-979-709-391-4. OCLC 298706775. Kartodirdjo, Sartono (1966). The peasants' revolt of Banten in 1888 : its conditions, course...
at the site. Indonesian scholars included Teuku Jacob, Etty Indriati, Sartono, Fachroel Aziz, Harry Widianto, Yahdi Zaim, and Johan Arif. A modest museum...
and jailed Sukarno, and the PNI was banned. At the end of April 1931, Sartono, a former leading figure in the PNI, established the Indonesia Party (Partindo)...
Santoso Wahid Hasyim Parada Harahap Johannes Latuharhary Susanto Tirtoprodjo Sartono Wongsonegoro Wuryaningrat Singgih Tan Eng Hoa Jayadiningrat Soekiman Wirjosandjojo...
Women". GlobeAsia Magazine. 25 December 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2007. Sartono, Frans (11 January 2008). "Mooryati, dari Jamu ke Politik". Kompas. Retrieved...
and 464. His son, Vijayavarman, did the same in 519.: 55 According to S.Sartono (1992), there were difficulties for merchant ships to dock at the port...
Arambourg & B. Hoffstetter Sangiran 17 0.70 Homo erectus 1969 Indonesia S. Sartono Peking Man 0.73±0.50 Homo erectus 1921 China Davidson Black Lost/stolen...
Assumed office Left office Notes 1 Sukarno 4 July 1927 29 December 1929 – Sartono 29 December 1929 25 April 1931 Acting chairman following Sukarno's arrest...
East ... Vol. 3. ABC-CLIO. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-57607-770-2. Kartodirdjo, Sartono (1993). Pengantar sejarah Indonesia baru, 1500–1900: Dari emporium sampai...
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