BIOGRAFI MOH. HATTA
BIOGRAFI
MOH. HATTA
Mohammad Hatta or often
called Bung Hatta was the first Vice President of Indonesia. Mohammad Hatta was
born in Bukit tinggi, West Sumatera on August 12th, 1902. His father is Haji
Mohammad Djamil and his mother is Siti Saleha. His father died when he was
eight months old. Hatta married to Rahmi Hatta on November 18th, 1945. The
couple had three children named Meutia Farida Hatta, Gemala Rabi’ah Hatta, and
Halida Nuriah Hatta.
Hatta started
his education at a private school named Sekolah Melayu. Then he went to ELS
(European Language School). He continued his school to MULO (Meer Uitgebreid
Lager Onderwijs). Hatta began to show his interested in politics and national
movement since he was sixteen years old. He joined Jong Sumatranen Bond and he
was chosen as the treasurer.
In 1919, Hatta
went to Hogere Burgerschool (HBS) in Batavia (Jakarta). He finished his study
with distinction in 1921 and he was allowed to continue his study to Rotterdam
School of Commerce in Netherlands. He took economics as his major and got a
doctorandus degree. He then continued to pursue his doctorate degree, but he
didn’t finish his thesis because politics had taken over his life.
In Netherlands
Hatta joined the Indische Vereeniging. In 1922, Indische Vereeniging changed
its named to Indonesische Vereeniging (Perhimpoenan Indonesia). Hatta was the
treasurer from 1922-1925 and then he became the chairman from 1926-1930.
Perhimpoenan Indonesia then changed from a student organization to political
organization that demand for Indonesia’s Independence. It expressed its voice
through a magazine called Indonesia Merdeka of which Hatta was the editor.
Hatta attended
congresses all over Europe to gain more support from other nations, he always
as the chairman of Indonesia delegation. By the middle of 1927, Perhimpoenan
Indonesia’s activites had alarmed the Dutch authorities. On June 1927, Dutch
authorities put Hatta and four other Indonesian activists in jail. In 1929,
Hatta and other Perhimpoenan Indonesia activists were released.
On August 1932,
after returning to Indonesia, Hatta became the chairman of the new PNI. On
February 1934, the Dutch Colonial government arrested PNI leaders from its
Jakarta branch (including Hatta) and Bandung branch. They were prisoned for a
year. In 1935, it was decided that Hatta and the other PNI leaders would be
exiled to Boven Digoel Papua. In 1936, Hatta and Sutan Syahrir were transfered
to Bandaneira in Maluku. There, they joined other nationalists such as Iwa
Kusumasumantri and Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo.
In 1942, Hatta
and Syahrir were transferred to Sukabumi, West Java. In the same year, the
Dutch Colonial Government surrendered. However, because of World War II was
under way, the Empire of Japan came to Indonesia to fulfil their imperial
ambitions in East Asia and South East Asia. On March 1942, Hatta and Syahrir
were transferred to Jakarta.
In July 1942,
Hatta was reunited with Sukarno. In a secret meeting at Hatta’s Jakarta home,
Sukarno, Hatta and Syahrir agreed to organise the revolutionary resistance to
achieve independence from Japan. In a speech on December 1942, Hatta said that
Indonesia already free from the Dutch Colonial Government, but Indonesia was
free only to be colonized by another power, he would rather to see Indonesia
drown to the bottom of the ocean.
As the tide of
the war began to turn against the Japanese, the Japanese Occupational
government in Indonesia began to lose its control of Indonesia. On August 1945,
Japanese finally approved Indonesian Independence. August 16th, 1945, the
Indonesian youths kidnapped Sukarno and Hatta to Rengasdengklok to force both
of them to declare Independence of Indonesia.
Finally, August
17th, 1945, at Sukarno’s residence, Indonesia’s Independence was proclaimed in
a short statement on a paper signed by Sukarno and Hatta. On August 18th, 1945
Hatta was selected as Indonesia’s first Vice President to accompany Sukarno as
the President of Indonesia. Hatta died on March 14th, 1980 and he was buried in
Tanah Kusir public cemetary, Jakarta.
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