Background
ABDULGANI, Roeslan was born in 1914 in Surabaya, East Java. Son of Mr. Abdulgani and Siti Murad.
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Roeslan ABDULGANI
Edit Profilediplomatist civil servant and politician
Education
Teacher Training College, Surabaya.
Career
Teacher Training College, Surabaya. Active in National Youth Movement seeking independence from Dutch. Active in anti-Japanese underground during Japanese occupation.
Minister of Foreign Affairs 1956-1957.
Chairman National Council 1957-1959. Vice-Chairman Supreme Advisory Council 1959-1962.
Company-ordinating Minister and Minister of Information 1963-1965. Deputy Prime Minister for Political Institutions 1966.
Permanent Representative 1967-1971.
Lecturer Monash University and other Australian universities 1972. Research Fellow Prince Bernhard Fund, Netherlands, United Kingdom 1973. Vice-President 24th United Nations General Assembly 1969.
Consultant, National Defence and Security Council of Indonesia.
Consultant on problems of mass media, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris 1977. Chairman Team of advisers to President, on State Ideology Pancasila, 1978.
Several honorary degrees. Indonesian.
Membership
Constituent Assembly 1957. PNI (Indonesian National Party).
Interests
Connections
Married Sihwati Nawangwulan in 1938.
