Prawoto Mangkusasmito

Prawoto Mangkusasmito
Official portrait of Prawoto Mangkusasmito
Official portrait, c. 1954
3rd Chairman of the Masyumi Party
In office
April 1959 – September 1960
Preceded byMohammad Natsir
Succeeded byOffice abolished
7th Deputy Prime Minister of Indonesia
In office
3 April 1952 – 3 June 1953
Prime MinisterWilopo
Preceded byRaden Suwiryo
Succeeded byWongsonegoro
Personal details
Born(1910-01-04)4 January 1910
Magelang, Dutch East Indies
Died24 July 1970(1970-07-24) (aged 60)
Banyuwangi, Indonesia
Political partyMasyumi Party
Spouse
Rabingah
(m. 1932)
Children4
OccupationPolitician

Prawoto Mangkusasmito (4 January 1910 – 24 July 1970) was an Indonesian politician who served as the final chairman of the Masyumi political party before its dissolution in 1960. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Indonesia during the Wilopo Cabinet between 1952 and 1953.

He originated from a Santri family from Central Java and studied law in Batavia, although the Japanese occupation began before he completed his studies. Joining Masyumi after Indonesian independence, he became a prominent member of parliament and along with Wilopo of the Indonesian National Party formed the Wilopo Cabinet. Due to other Masyumi leaders' involvement in the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia, Prawoto took over its leadership in 1959, unsuccessfully attempting to recover the party's political position before its dissolution in 1960. Continuing to criticize Sukarno's Guided Democracy, he was arrested in 1962. Following his release in 1966, his attempts to reenter politics did not bear fruit and he died in 1970.