Ki Bagus Hadikusumo

Ki Bagus Hadikusumo (old spelling Bagoes Hadikoesoemo; born Raden Hidajat, 24 November 1890 – 4 November 1954) was an Indonesian scholar and politician who chaired Muhammadiyah from 1942 to 1953 and sat in the BPUPKI committee that prepared Indonesian independence, where he was a leading advocate of the Jakarta Charter. He has no English, Arabic or Urdu Wikipedia article; this page is written from the Indonesian article and his Wikidata item. ^{1 2}

He was born at Kampung Kauman in Yogyakarta — the article gives his Hijri birth date as Monday 11 Rabi' al-Akhir 1308 — the third of five children of Raden Haji Lurah Hasjim, a court official (abdi dalem) of the Yogyakarta kraton. He attended the people's school and the traditional pesantren at Wonokromo, gained his command of Javanese, Malay and Dutch letters from Ngabehi Sasrasoeganda, and learned English from Mirza Wali Ahmad Baig, an Ahmadiyya figure named by the article. Within Muhammadiyah he chaired the Tabligh Council (1922) and the Tarjih Council, sat on the central board's commission from 1926, and in 1937 Mas Mansoer invited him to become deputy chairman; he declined the chairmanship itself that year when the young members proposed him. ¹

When the Japanese compelled Mas Mansoer to chair Putera in 1942, Ki Bagus succeeded him as general chairman of Muhammadiyah, holding the post until 1953 (his infobox gives 1944–1953; the text and succession box give 1942–1953, and the discrepancy is recorded rather than resolved). He had helped found the Indonesian Islamic Party in 1938 and Masyumi at Yogyakarta in 1943. As a BPUPKI and then PPKI member he debated the basis of the state fiercely, pressing the Jakarta Charter's clause on Islamic law against the secular nationalists — the stand for which the Indonesian press remembers him as the Charter's hard-line defender. ¹

His books include Islam Sebagai Dasar Negara (Islam as the Basis of the State), Achlaq Pemimpin, and the Poestaka series — Poestaka Hadi (1936), Poestaka Islam (1940), Poestaka Ichsan (1941) and Poestaka Iman (1954). He died in Jakarta on 4 November 1954 and was buried at the Pakuncen public cemetery in Wirobrajan, Yogyakarta; a report cited by the article recounts that the grave was later lost and the plot reused. President Joko Widodo named him a National Hero in 2015. His school of Islam is not named in the article — its infobox religion field is commented out — and his record leaves it unknown. ^{1 2}

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