Tjokorda Gde Raka Soekawati

Tjokorda Gdé Raka Soekawati
ᬘᭀᬓᭀᬃᬤᬕ᭄ᬤᬾᬭᬓᬲᬸᬓᬯᬢᬶ
1st President of the State of East Indonesia
In office
24 December 1946 – 17 August 1950
Prime MinisterNadjamuddin Daeng Malewa
Semuel Jusof Warouw
Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung
J.E. Tatengkeng
D.P. Diapari
Martinus Putuhena
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born(1899-01-15)15 January 1899
Ubud, Gianyar, Bali, Dutch East Indies
Died1967 (Aged 67 - 68)
Indonesia
Spouse(s)Gusti Agung Niang Putu
Gilberte Vincent

Tjokorda Gdé Raka Soekawati (EYD: Cokorda Gdé Raka Sukawati; Balinese: ᬘᭀᬓᭀᬃᬤᬕ᭄ᬤᬾᬭᬓᬲᬸᬓᬯᬢᬶ), (15 January 1899 – 1967) was a Balinese nobleman and politician who served as the first and only president of the State of East Indonesia from 1946 until its dissolution in 1950.[1] His title, Tjokorda Gdé, signaled that Soekawati belonged to the highest ksatria (one of the four noble castes in Bali). He had two wives, the first a Balinese, Gusti Agung Niang Putu, who gave him a son named Tjokorda Ngurah Wim Sukawati. In 1933, he married a French woman named Gilbert Vincent,[2] who gave him two children.[3]

  1. ^ Gde Rake Soekawati, Tjokorde (1926). Legende over den oorsprong van de rijst en Godsdienstige gebruiken bij den rijstbouw onder de Baliërs. Albrecht & Co.
  2. ^ Kraemer, Hendrik (1933). De strijd over Bali en de zending. Amsterdam: H.J. Paris.
  3. ^ Hoe de Baliër zich kleedt (1926), p. 12