Hartono Rekso Dharsono
| Hartono Rekso Dharsono | |
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| 1st Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations | |
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In office 5 June 1976 – 18 February 1978 |
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| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Umarjadi Notrowijono |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 June 1925 Pekalongan, Central Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) |
| Died | 5 June 1996 (aged 70) Bandung, West Java, Indonesia |
| Alma mater | Bandung Institute of Technology |
| Profession | Diplomat |
Hartono Rekso Dharsono (Pekalongan, Central Java, 10 June 1925 - Bandung, West Java, 5 June 1996) or more commonly known as HR Dharsono was a prominent General in the early years of General Suharto's New Order regime. He also held the distinction of being the first Secretary General of ASEAN.
Dharsono was born in Pekalongan, Central Java. He was the ninth child of Raden Prayitno Rekso, a civil servant working in the same town. After completing primary education in Pekalongan, Dharsono moved to Semarang and Jakarta for junior high school before going back to Semarang to complete high school. Unlike his contemporaries, Dharsono did not seem to have considered a military career at this point and went to Bandung to attend Technische Hogeschool, the precursor to the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB).
It was only after the Indonesian Declaration of Independence on 17 August 1945, that Dharsono joined Indonesia's then fledgling army. He enlisted with the Siliwangi Division, which was charged with the security of West Java and which was then commanded by Colonel Abdul Haris Nasution. During the Indonesian National Revolution, Dharsono partook in the Division's famous exploits, which included its 1948 long march from West Java to Central Java as a result of the Renville Agreement and its involvement in the crackdown on communists in Madiun, East Java. For his part, Dharsono showed himself to have some military talent, working his way up as he became Commanders of a squad, platoon, and battalion in turn.
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