Described as an omnivorous intellectual Sjahrir had education at the heart of his passion.

Sukarno, Hatta and Sjahrir had in fact agreed that Sjahrir would go underground to organise the revolutionary resistance while the other 2 would continue their cooperation with the Japanese occupier.

In the early and mid-twentieth century, Sumatran academics and leaders were important figures in Indonesia's independence movements, such as: Mohammad Hatta ( the first vice-president ) and Sutan Sjahrir ( the first prime minister ).

The original PNI was disbanded by the Dutch, and its former members formed two different parties ; the Partai Indonesia ( Partindo ) under Sukarno's associate Sartono who were promoting mass agitation, and the Pendidikan Nasional Indonesia ( PNI Baroe ) under Mohammad Hatta and Soetan Sjahrir, two nationalists who recently returned from studies in the Netherlands, and who were promoting a long-term strategy of providing modern education to the uneducated Indonesian populace to develop an intellectual elite able to offer effective resistance to Dutch rule.

Sukarno ordered the armed forces under Sudirman to launch guerilla campaign in the countryside, while he and other key leaders such as Hatta and Sjahrir allowed themselves to be taken prisoner by the Dutch.

In a secret meeting at Hatta's Jakarta home Sukarno, Hatta and Sjahrir agreed that Sjahrir would go underground to organise the revolutionary resistance while the other 2 would commence their cooperation with the Japanese occupier.

Sjahrir was a close associate of the older statesman Mohammad Hatta, a key leader of the Indonesian revolution and leader of the Indonesian underground resistance during the Japanese occupation.

When the ' Indonesian Association ' ( PI ) drifted to the far political left, both Hatta and Sjahrir parted with the organisation.

In a reaction to the intrigue by communist cells in the PI against Hatta and himself Sjahrir stayed calm and in character.

After his death in 1966 the former Dutch Prime-Minister Professor Schermerhorn commemorated Sjahrir in a public broadcast on national radio, calling him a " noble political warrior " with " high ideals " and expressing the hope that he will be recognised as such by next generations in Indonesia.

Immediately President Sukarno consulted Sjahrir and ordered him to leave the country to create international public opinion against the Dutch and also persuade the friendly countries to raise the issue before the UNO.

Shootouts broke-out with alarming regularity in Jakarta, including an attempted assassination of Prime Minister Sjahrir by Dutch gunmen.

Sjahrir was leading the negotiation with the Dutch.

The Dutch side was represented by Lieutenant General Governor Hubertus van Mook, the Indonesian side by Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir.

Sjahrir, who has been replaced as prime minister by Amir Sjarifuddin, flew to New York City to appeal Indonesian case in front of United Nations.

Sutan Sjahrir ( 5 March 1909 – 9 April 1966 ), an avant garde and idealistic Indonesian intellectual, was a revolutionary independence leader.

Although Sjahrir was one of the most significant Indonesian politicians of his time, he did not engage in politics through a sense of vocation nor out of interest, but rather through a sense of duty to his country and compatriates and commitment to his democratic ideals.

Sjahrir was also one of the co-founders of Jong Indonesie, an Indonesian youth association in lieu of the need of an association to assist in the development of Indonesian youth for further generations, only to change within a few years to Pemuda Indonesia.

At the height of chaos and violence during the early Bersiap period of the Indonesian revolution Sjahrir published an epoch-making pamphlet named ' Our Struggle '.

Sjahrir founded the Indonesian Socialist Party ( PSI ) in 1948 to politically oppose the Indonesian Communist Party ( PKI ).

The second party called the Socialist Party of Indonesia was founded on 13 February 1948 by Sutan Sjahrir after his departure from the Socialist Party.

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