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Place of Birth: Slogohimo, Indonesia
About Sartono
- Mr.
- Raden Mas Sartono (5 August 1900 – 15 October 1968) was an Indonesian politician and lawyer.
- He was the first Speaker of the People's Representative Council serving between 1950 and 1960, a minister in the first Indonesian cabinet, and a participant in the struggle for Indonesia's independence from the Netherlands. Originating from Javanese noble family, Sartono studied law at Leiden University before returning to Indonesia and becoming a founding member of the Indonesian National Party (PNI).
- Throughout the 1930s, Sartono founded political parties Partindo and later Gerindo, temporarily leaving politics during the Japanese occupation period before rejoining the PNI after independence, becoming a state minister and joining the Central Indonesian National Committee.
- After 1949, Sartono became speaker of the People's Representative Council (DPR) throughout three iterations of the body – the People's Representative Council of the United States of Indonesia, the Provisional People's Representative Council, and the present DPR.
- He would remain as chairman until the body was dissolved by President Sukarno in 1960, serving in multiple occasions as acting president.
- After a five-year tenure in the presidential advisory body, he left politics in 1967 and died the following year.
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