People from Batak Ethnic Groups - Amir Sjarifuddin, Joy Destiny Tobing, Maraden Panggabean, Nadya Hutagalung, Bona Sijabat, Jesse Huta Galung (Paperback)

Chapters: Amir Sjarifuddin, Joy Destiny Tobing, Maraden Panggabean, Nadya Hutagalung, Bona Sijabat, Jesse Huta Galung, Radja Nainggolan, Burhanuddin Harahap. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Amir Sjarifuddin Harahap, also spelled Amir Sjarifoeddin Harahap (27 April 1907 - 19 December 1948) was a socialist politician and one of the Indonesian Republic's first leaders, becoming Prime Minister during the country's National Revolution. A Christian convert from a Muslim Batak family, Amir was a major leader of the Left during the Revolution. He was executed in 1948 by Indonesian Republican officers following his involvement in a Communist revolt. Born into Sumatran aristocracy in the city of Medan, Amir's wealthy background and outstanding intellectual abilities allowed him to enter the most elite schools; he was educated in Haarlem and Leiden in the Netherlands before gaining a law degree in Batavia (now Jakarta). During his time in the Netherlands he studied Eastern and Western philosophy under the tutelage of the Theosophical Society. Amir converted from Islam to Christianity in 1931 whereupon his fervently Islamic mother carried out her threat to commit suicide. In 1937, one of the final years of the Dutch period, Amir led a group of younger Marxists in establishing Gerindo ('Indonesian People's Movement'), a radical co-operating party opposed to international fascism as the first enemy. The Soviet Unions Dmitrov doctrine had called for a common front against fascism which helped swell the numbers of Indonesians taking an approach cooperative the Dutch in an attempt to secure Indonesian independence. Gerindo was one of the more significant cooperative parties, which in the years before World War II whos objectives included a full Indonesian legi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3020794