Career
He was renowned for leading 180 communists to launch a guerrilla assault on a police station during the Bukit Kepong Incident, causing deaths of almost all police officers in the station. Following the guerilla attack, the ruling British authorities placed a M$ 75,000 bounty on his head On the night of 14 October 1952, Mat Indera was invited to a "meeting" by some acquaintances in Kampung Seri Medan, at which he was served tempeh and coffee laced with Datura.
After being incapacitated, he was handed over to the British, who charged him with crimes related to the Bukit Kepong incident.
Mat Indera was subsequently found guilty and hanged at 11 pm on 30 January 1953 in Taiping Prison. On 21 August 2011, Mohamad Sabu, Deputy President of Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, made a controversial statement saying that Mat Indera, the leader of the communists during the Bukit Kepong Incident, was a national hero for fighting against British rule.