Background
SUBANDRIO, Doctor was born in 1914.
politician diplomatist and surgeon
SUBANDRIO, Doctor was born in 1914.
Medical University, Jakarta. And general practitioner.
Worked with underground anti-Japanese Forces during Second World War. Forced to leave post at Jakarta Central Hospital and then established a private practice at Semarang. Following declaration of independence abandoned practice to become Secretary-General, Ministry of Information and was later sent by Indonesian Government, as special envoy to Europe.
Established
Information Office, London 1947. Charge d’affaires, London 1949, Ambassador to United Kingdom 195054, to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1954-1956. Foreign Minister 1957-1966.
Second Deputy First Minister 1960-1966, concurrently Minister for Foreign Economics Relations 196266.
Convicted of complicity in attempted communist coup and sentenced to death October 1966. Sentence commuted to life imprisonment 1970.