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Muhammad Yamin

Mohammad Yamin
Mohammad Yamin (1954).jpg
Mohamad Yamin in 1954
14th Information Minister
In office
March 6, 1962 – October 17, 1962
President Soekarno
Preceded by Maladi
Succeeded by Roeslan Abdulgani
8th Minister of National Education of Indonesia
In office
July 30, 1953 – August 12, 1955
President Soekarno
Preceded by Bahder Djohan
Succeeded by R.M. Suwandi
6th Indonesian Minister of Law
In office
April 27, 1951 – April 3, 1952
President Soekarno
Preceded by Wongsonegoro
Succeeded by Lukman Wiriadinata
Personal details
Born (1903-08-24)August 24, 1903
Netherlands Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, Dutch East Indies
Died October 17, 1962(1962-10-17) (aged 59)
Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia
Nationality Indonesia

Mohammad Yamin (August 24, 1903 – October 17, 1962) was born in Talawi, Sawahlunto, in the heartland of the Minangkabau on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. He was the son of Tuanku Oesman Gelar Baginda Khatib (1856–1924) the penghulu andiko of Indrapura and author of a manuscript on Minangkabau adat laws that now is stored at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). Oesman had five wives with whom he had sixteen children who make up a veritably influential, but incohesive political and intellectual, family in early modern Indonesian history. Other well-known sons of Oesman are Mohammad Yaman Rajo Endah, the eldest, an educator; Achmad Djamaluddin, a renowned journalist, who later in life added to his name his nom de plume, Adinegoro; and Ramana Oesman (1924–1992), a pioneer of the Indonesian diplomatic corps.

In 1937, Yamin married Siti Sundari, daughter of a nobleman from Surakarta, Central Java, by whom he had one child, a son, Dang Rahadian Sinayangsih Yamin ("Dian"). In 1969, Dian married Gusti Raden Ayu Retno Satuti, the eldest daughter of Mangkunegara VIII, Sultan of Surakarta.

Yamin was a historian, poet, playwright, and politician. He was educated at the Algemene Middelbare School (AMS) in Yogyakarta, majoring in history and Far Eastern languages, including Malay, Javanese and Sanskrit. Upon his graduation in 1927, he went on to study law at the Rechtshogeschool in Batavia, as Jakarta was known during the colonial period in Indonesia. The Rechtshogeschool, founded in 1924, is the precursor of the Faculty of Law of what became the Universiteit van Indonesie and, after the transfer of sovereignty, changed its name in 1950 to Universitas Indonesia, the premier tertiary institution in the country (Ref 1). Yamin earned his doctorate in law (meester in de rechten) in 1932.


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