User:Dan Carkner/Tan Po Goan
 | This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. For guidance on developing this draft, see Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft. Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Tan Po Goan | |
|---|---|
陈宝源 | |
 | |
| Born | 24 October 1911 Cianjur, Dutch East Indies |
| Died | November 1985 Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | lawyer, politician, writer |
Tan Po Goan (Chinese: 陈宝源, 1911–1985), sometimes spelled Tan Po Gwan, was a Chinese Indonesian lawyer and Socialist Party of Indonesia politician. He was a Minister without portfolio representing the Chinese community in the Third Sjahrir Cabinet (1946–7), making him possibly the first Chinese Indonesian to be appointed to ministerial rank.
Biography
[edit]Tan Po Goan was born in Cianjur, Batavia Residency, Dutch East Indies (now in West Java, Indonesia) on 24 October 1911.[1][2] He was educated at an Algemene middelbare school in Bandung.[2] He studied law at the Rechtshoogeschool te Batavia, the precursor to today's Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia.[2] He graduated in 1937 Master of Laws (Meester in de rechten) degree.[3] After graduating he moved to Makassar to practice law.[4][2] He returned to Java in 1939 and opened a law practice in Surabaya.[3] During his time there, he became involved in journalism and started writing for the popular Chinese Indonesian newspaper Sin Po.[3] He continued writing for the paper until the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies in 1942; he was then interned by the Japanese, along with many Chinese Indonesian intellectuals.[3][4]
He joined the law firm of Lie Hwee Yoe.[5]
He was freed after the end of the war and became involved in politics in newly independent Indonesia, and was a supporter of the Republican side against the Dutch in the Indonesian National Revolution.[4][3] On 2 October 1946 he was appointed a Minister of state (Minister without portfolio) representing the Chinese community in the Third Sjahrir Cabinet.[6][7][8] The purpose of his appointment was partly to try and work through the difficult relations between native Indonesians and Chinese Indonesians during the war against the Dutch.[9] It was received positively by Sin Po as more than a token gesture by the Republican government.[9][10]
In early 1947 he was accused of blocking the evacuation of Chinese Indonesians from Republican to Dutch-held territory; he denied it and insisted that it was the Dutch who had limited the number of refugees they were allowing into the parts of Java they controlled.[11] Not long after that, his term as minister ended and he was then appointed (on 3 March) to the 47-member Working Committee of the Central Indonesian National Committee (KNIP), again representing the Chinese community.[4][12] This was the fifth meeting of the KNIP which met in Malang and ratified the Linggadjati Agreement.
He was also briefly a member of the Chinese Indonesian Democratic Party (Partai Demokrat Tionghoa Indonesia, PDTI), though in 1953 he and Tan Boen An left it to join Sutan Sjahrir's Socialist Party of Indonesia (PSI).[13][2][4] During this era he was a popular and well-connected figure and known as a bon vivant.[4]
Following the Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference in 1949 and the Provisional Constitution of 1950, KNIP was expanded into the Provisional House of Representatives and a number of former KNIP members were appointed to it. Tan joined as a representative of the 15-member Socialist Party faction under Soebadio Sastrosatomo.[14]
He joined the Consultative Council for Indonesian Citizenship (BAPERKI), a progressive and pro-integration Indonesian Chinese organization, in 1954 and was nominated to run for it in the 1955 Indonesian legislative election.[3] However, he resigned from the party by 1955 and did not run for them in the election, running instead for the Socialists (PSI).[4][3][15] Supposedly part of his reason for withdrawing from BAPERKI was that they wanted to dictate which positions he was to take in the House.[16] He campaigned with Sutan Sjahrir, Injo Beng Goat, Maria Ulfah Santoso.[17][18]
In March 1957, Tan was called in to face a Military Police commander along with 11 other civil servants who were suspected of corruption.[19] He was abroad in 1958 when the Permesta rebellion broke out, which implicated some of his Socialist Party colleagues.[4] Feeling alienated by the direction of Indonesian politics thereafter, and possibly worried about being arrested in connection with the Permesta rebellion, he stayed abroad for a decade.[4][3] He briefly returned after Sukarno's death. He had been living in Singapore and Thailand during that decade; when he tried to rejoin his old law firm, they refused, possibly out of fear of his political associations.[20]
but decided to leave again and settled in Sydney, Australia.[3][2]
He died in Sydney in November 1985.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Fractions and sections in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia and a short biography of the chairman, vice chairmen and members of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia on August 1, 1954. Jakarta: Indonesia. Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. 1954. p. 29.
- ^ a b c d e f g Suryadinata, Leo (1995). Prominent Indonesian Chinese: biographical sketches. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 176. ISBN 9789813055032.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Pamungkas, M. Fazil (27 January 2020). "Menteri Tionghoa di Kabinet Republik Indonesia". Historia - Majalah Sejarah Populer Pertama di Indonesia (in Indonesian). Retrieved 3 December 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Lev, Daniel S.; Lev, Arlene O.; Anderson, Benedict (2014). No Concessions: The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian Human Rights Lawyer. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780295801773.
- ^ Lev, Daniel S.; Lev, Arlene O.; Anderson, Benedict (2014). No Concessions: The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian Human Rights Lawyer. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 114. ISBN 9780295801773.
- ^ Kahin, George McTurnan (1952). Nationalism and revolution in Indonesia. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press. p. 195.
- ^ "Kabinet Sjahrir III". Sekretariat Kabinet Republik Indonesia (in Indonesian). Sekretariat Kabinet Republik Indonesia. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
- ^ "HET NIEUWE KABINET". Het dagblad: uitgave van de Nederlandsche Dagbladpers te Batavia (in Dutch). Jakarta. 3 October 1946. p. 1.
- ^ a b "Indonesia". The China Weekly Review. 103 (7): 204. 19 October 1946.
- ^ "Tan Po Gwan OORDEEL UIT EIGEN KRING". Het dagblad: uitgave van de Nederlandsche Dagbladpers te Batavia (in Dutch). Jakarta. 12 October 1946. p. 2.
- ^ "DE EVACUATIE VAN CHINEEZEN". Nieuwe courant (in Dutch). Surabaya. 13 February 1947.
- ^ Kahin, George McTurnan (1952). Nationalism and revolution in Indonesia. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press. p. 205.
- ^ Suryadinata, Leo (2022). Peranakan Chinese identities in the globalizing Malay Archipelago. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. p. 217. ISBN 9789814951708.
- ^ Fractions and sections in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia and a short biography of the chairman, vice chairmen and members of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia on August 1, 1954. Jakarta: Indonesia. Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. 1954. p. 4.
- ^ Suryadinata, Leo (2012). Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese descent: a biographical dictionary. Singapore: Chinese Heritage Center : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 972. ISBN 9789814345224.
- ^ Lev, Daniel S.; Lev, Arlene O.; Anderson, Benedict (2014). No Concessions: The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian Human Rights Lawyer. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 149. ISBN 9780295801773.
- ^ "Verkiezingscampagne van P.S.I." De locomotief: Samarangsch handels- en advertentie-blad (in Dutch). Semarang. 3 September 1955. p. 2.
- ^ "Candidaten der PSI Midden-Java". De locomotief: Samarangsch handels- en advertentie-blad (in Dutch). Semarang. 17 March 1955. p. 2.
- ^ Fakih, Farabi (2020). Authoritarian modernization in Indonesia's early independence period: the foundation of the New Order State (1950-1965). Leiden Boston: Brill. p. 58. ISBN 9789004437722.
- ^ Lev, Daniel S.; Lev, Arlene O. (2011). No concessions: the life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian human rights lawyer. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 309. ISBN 9780295801773.