Chairul Saleh

Chairul Saleh Dt Paduko Rajo (September 13, 1916 - February 8, 1967) was born in Sawahlunto, West Sumatra. He was an Indonesian government minister and vice prime minister during the Sukarno presidency. He was a close confident of Sukarno, who he had helped persuade to declare Indonesian independence in 1945. He lived in the Netherlands from 1952-1953, but returned to Indonesia after being expelled. He joined Sukarno's circle of advisers in 1955. ^[1]

One week before the the abortive coup on 30 September 1965, Saleh went to China with a delegation of 45 to celebrate China's national day on 1 October.^[2]

References

http://www.oocities.com/forumleuven/artikel/chairul.html
Ricklefs (1982), A History of Modern Indonesia, Macmillan Southeast Asian reprint, ISBN 0-333-24380-3

Notes

^ Ricklefs (1982) p264
^ Hughes, John (2002), The End of Sukarno – A Coup that Misfired: A Purge that Ran Wild, Archipelago Press, p. 20, ISBN 981 4068 65 9

This Indonesian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[RICKLEFS264-1] Ricklefs (1982) p264

[2] Hughes, John (2002), The End of Sukarno – A Coup that Misfired: A Purge that Ran Wild, Archipelago Press, p. 20, ISBN 981 4068 65 9

[1]

[2]