Anwar Tjokroaminoto

Anwar Tjokroaminoto
Tjokroaminoto, 1954
10th Minister of Social Affairs
In office
1 April 1952 – 11 May 1953
Prime MinisterWilopo
Preceded bySjamsuddin Sutan Makmur [id]
Succeeded bySoeroso
3rd Prime Minister of Pasundan
In office
9 January 1950 – 23 January 1950
Wali NegaraWiranatakusumah
Preceded byDjumhana Wiriaatmadja
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Member of People's Representative Council
In office
26 March 1956 – 22 July 1959
In office
15 February 1950 – 1 April 1952
Personal details
Born
Oetarjo Anwar Tjokroaminoto

(1909-05-03)3 May 1909
Surabaya, Dutch East Indies
Died16 November 1975(1975-11-16) (aged 66)
Political partyIndonesian Islamic Union Party
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Oetarjo Anwar Tjokroaminoto (3 May 1909 – 16 November 1975) was an Indonesian politician and journalist. He served as Minister of Social Affairs for a year in the Wilopo Cabinet and was the Prime Minister of Pasundan for less than a month during January 1950.

Son of Indonesian nationalist and Sarekat Islam founder H.O.S. Tjokroaminoto, he studied journalism in his youth and for some time worked in schools affiliated with his father's political party PSII before working for newspapers. He worked for the Asia Raya newspaper during the Japanese occupation period, and he was also managing editor for Pemandangan. After Indonesian independence, Tjokroaminoto entered politics through the Masyumi Party, serving briefly as a minister before moving to PSII. He was part of the government of the State of Pasundan and was appointed prime minister, though suspicions after the APRA coup d'état resulted in Pasundan's dissolution shortly afterward.

Tjokroaminoto then rejoined the government as a legislator, and by 1952 he obtained a cabinet post as Minister of Social Affairs in the Wilopo Cabinet where he was reshuffled after a year. PSII later fractured in 1972, and Tjokroaminoto became a leader in one of the two competing factions until he died in 1975.