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Rajiman Wediodiningrat

Kanjeng Raden Tumenggung (K.R.T.) Radjiman Wedyodiningrat (21 April 1879 – 20 September 1952) was an Indonesian physician and one of the founding figures of the Indonesian Republic. He was a member of the Budi Utomo organization, in 1945 was elected to lead the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence (BPUPK). On 9 August 1945, the day after the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Rajiman, along with nationalist figures Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta were flown to Saigon to meet with Field Marshal Hisaichi Terauchi, the Japanese commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group.

In 1950, having become a member of the legislature, the People's Representative Council (DPR), he led its first plenary session. Two years later, Rajiman died and was buried in Yogyakarta. He was named a National Hero of Indonesia on 8 November 2013.

Radjiman was born on Thursday Pahing, 21 April 1879, in Yogyakarta, Dutch East Indies. His father, Ki Sutodrono, a former KNIL personnel, was a seventh-generation descendant of Kraeng Naba, the brother of Kraeng Galesong, a well-known ally of Trunojoyo during the 17th-century rebellion against the Mataram Sultanate. Unlike his brother, however, Kraeng Naba later became affiliated with the court of Mataram. On the other hand, Rajiman’s mother was of Gorontalo descent. He grew up in Lempuyangan.

Radjiman enrolled at the Tweede Europeesche Lagere School in Yogyakarta in 1886 and graduated in 1893 at the age of fourteen. He continued his studies at Sekolah Dokter Jawa (School tot Opleiding van Inlandsche Geneeskundigen) in Batavia with a scholarship, graduating on 22 December 1898 with the title of dokter Jawa (“Javanese doctor”). At that school, he befriended Sulaeman, the son of Wahidin Sudirohusodo, who was his contemporary, although Sulaeman was technically his distant nephew.

In January 1899, Radjiman began working at the Central Civil Hospital (CBZ) in Batavia. In May 1899, he was transferred to Banyumas with the assignment of eradicating smallpox in Kalirejo–Purworejo. In 1900, he was assigned to Semarang, where he worked in the surgery and autopsy department. From 1901 until 23 December 1902, he served at the General Hospital in Madiun, Central Java. Those regions that were relatively poor and remote at the time. His experiences there helped shape his social and political outlook.

Between 1903 and 1904, he served as an assistant lecturer at STOVIA.

On 5 November 1904, Radjiman graduated from STOVIA with the degree of Indisch (or Inlandsch) Arts. From 1904 to 1905, he served as a general physician in Sragen, while from 1905 to 1906, he was posted at the Mental Hospital in Lawang, East Java.

In 1906, Radjiman resigned from government service and was appointed physician to the Surakarta Palace, a position he held until 1934.

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