Mohammad Hatta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMohammad Hatta
first Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia
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Place of Birth: Bukittinggi, Sumatra, Indonesia
About Mohammad Hatta
- Mohammad Hatta (listen ;12 August 1902 – 14 March 1980) was an Indonesian politician who served as its first vice president.
- Known as "The Proclamator", he and a number of Indonesians, including the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, fought for the independence of Indonesia from the Dutch.
- Hatta was born in Fort de Kock, Dutch East Indies (now Bukittinggi, Indonesia).
- After his early education, he studied in Dutch schools in the Dutch East Indies and studied in the Netherlands from 1921 until 1932. Mohammad Hatta is often remembered as Bung Hatta (according to author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, "bung" is an affectionate title meaning "friend", used to be a way of addressing a person in a familiar way, as an alternative to the old-form "tuan", "mas" or "bang").
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