Agustinus Suhardi

Raden Agustinus Suhardi (1899–1988) was a professor at Gadjah Mada University and first Agrarian Minister of Indonesia.

Biography

Suhardi was born in Klaten, Central Java in 1899.[1] He first studied at a school for native Indonesians, before moving to nearby Yogyakarta to study at a Meer uitgebreid lager onderwijs (middle school) there.[1] For high school, he moved to Batavia (modern day Jakarta) and attended Canisius College.[1] He then attended legal school, the Recht Hooge School, there.[1]

Suhardi first found employment as a judge at a Dutch court in Tangerang, West Java.[1] In 1946, he was transferred to Boyolali, Central Java, to head the court there.[1] The following year he was transferred to Ngawi, East Java, to head the military court there.[1] He later became the first Agrarian Minister of Indonesia.[1] At the time he was also a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University (UGM).[1]

Suhardi was a member of the UGM team that framed the Fundamental Agrarian Law in 1959.[1] He was also a participant in the Asian–African Conference and part of the Catholic Faction in the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia.[2]

Suhardi died in 1988.[2]

Personal life

Suhardi was married to Agustina Siti Ruwiyah.[1] Together they had five children.[1]

References
Footnotes
  1. Bahari 2011, p. 49.
  2. Bahari 2011, p. 50.
Bibliography
  • Bahari, Adib (2011). Pendekar Hukum Indonesia [Indonesian Legal Giants] (in Indonesian). Yogyakarta: Pustaka Yustisis. ISBN 978-979-3411-04-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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