Dr. Mohammad Amir: Tragedi Seorang Tokoh Pejuang Gerakan Kebangsaan Indonesia Di Sumatera Timur  

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Bachtiar, Harsja W.

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Jurnal Studi Indonesia no. 4 (1994)
Topik: Dr. Mohammad Amir; Pejuang Gerakan Kebangsaan Indonesia; Pejuang Sumatera Timur
Fulltext: Harsja W. Bachtiar.pdf (61.86KB)

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Dr. M. Amir, born in 1900 as a member of matrilineal Minangkabau society in West Sumatera, acquired secondary education and the first part of his medical education in Jakarta where he participated actively in the Sumatera youth movement and contributed articles on cultural matters. He went to continue his medical studies at the University of Utrecht m the Netherlands and later married the niece of the then Dutch leader of the Theosophist movement in the Netherlands Indies. He emerged as a prominent Indonesia oriented intellectual in Medan, East Sumatera, an area with a concentration of Malay sultanates. Selected by his old friend M.Hatta in Jakarta to represent Sumatera together with two other prominent figures, he participated in the activities of the Committee for the Preparation of Indonesia's independence in drafting the Constitution of the new state to be, the actual event of the proclamation of independence of Indonesia on August 17, 1945 and the meetings which laid the foundations of the new republic. He then returned to Medan with the newly appointed Governor of Sumatera to establish the authority of the republic in the Medan area and the rest of Sumatera. Together with local political leaders he mobilized the people to take up arms to defend the newly established republic. In the subsequent collective action, the "social revolution" against the existing feodal order broke out which he could not avoid and control. He, in fact, felt that the safety of his own family - his Dutch wife and their two children - was also threatened and sought refuge with the British military forces which arrived in Medan to evacuate the Japanese soldiers who had surrendered to the Allies. Returning Dutch government and military personnel also were on the scene to reestablish their former colonial authority. What he had done to safe his family made him a broken man in heart and spirit. He left his family in the Netherlands and returned alone to Indonesia to practice medical in Sulawesi where people did not know him. In 1949 he fell ill and was transported to Amsterdam where he died. At his own request his remains were cremated at Velsen.

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