Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Gresik, Indonesia
About Fakih Usman
- Kyai Hajji Fakih Usman (also Faqih Usman; [fa'k?h ?s'man]; 2 March 1904 – 3 October 1968) was an Indonesian Islamic leader and politician with the Masyumi Party.
- He twice served as the Minister of Religious Affairs: under the Halim Cabinet in the State of the Republic of Indonesia in 1950, and in the national government during the Wilopo Cabinet from 1952 to 1953.
- In his early years Fakih was criticised by conservative Muslims for his involvement with the modernist Islamic organisation Muhammadiyah, though that group remembers him warmly. Born to a merchant and his wife in Gresik, Dutch East Indies, Fakih studied with his father and at a series of pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) until the 1920s.
- In 1925 he became involved with the Muhammadiyah, rising quickly through the leadership until he became the head of the Surabaya branch in 1938.
- He was also active in local politics.
- When a group of Islamic organisations formed the Indonesian Islamic Assembly in 1937, Fakih became treasurer.
- He continued to be involved in politics and Islamic groups during the Japanese occupation and ensuing national revolution.
- While serving as minister of religious affairs, he oversaw educational and institutional reform, growing in prominence within the Muhammadiyah.
- He served as deputy chairman of the organisation under several different leaders before being chosen as its chairman in late 1968, several days before his death.
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