Wilopo’S

Cabinet

Devina Aurellia
Shannon Eugenia
Sieren Chelga
- Mr. Wilopo
-Cabinet Members
– Minister of Foreign Affairs : Wilopo (Indonesian National Party - PNI)

– Minister of Home Affairs: Mohammad Roem (Masyumi Party)

– Minister of Defense: Sultan Hamengkubuwana IX

– Minister of Justice: Lukman Wiriadinata (Socialist Party of Indonesia - PSI)

– Minister of Information: Arnold Mononutu (Indonesian National Party – PNI)

– Minister of Finance: Sumitro Djojohadikusumo (Socialist Party of Indonesia - PSI)

– Minister of Agriculture: Mohammad Sardjan (Masyumi Party)

– Minister of Economic Affairs: Sumanang (Indonesian National Party – PNI)

– Minister of Transport: Djuanda

– Minister of Public Works and Power: Suwarto (PKRI)

– Minister of Labor: Iskandar Tedjasukmana (Labour Party)

– Minister of Social Affairs: Anwar Tjokroaminoto (Indonesian Islamic Union Party - PSII)

– Minister of Education & Culture: Bahder Djohan

– Minister of Religious Affairs: Fakih Usman (Masyumi Party)

– Minister of Health: Dr. Johannes Leimena (Parkindo)

– Minister of Employee Affairs: R.P Soeroso (Parindra)

 - Wilopo’s Cabinet.
– Wilopo’s cabinet is one of the cabinet on liberal
democracy era.
– This cabinet was led by Wilopo from PNI (Partai Nasional
Indonesia).
– This cabinet was formed on April 3 1952 and goes on until
July 30 1953.
– The member of Wilopo’s Cabinet comes from various
parties and was formed after the fall of Sukiman Cabinet
 - Wilopo’s Cabinet’s Work Plan.
– Restore West Irian back to the territory of Republic of
Indonesia.
– Preparing for the election.
– To intensify the prosperity and safety of the people in
the Republic of Indonesia.
– To do a free and active foreign policy.
– To update the teaching field and education in Indonesia.
 - Separatism Movement.
– Some places in Sulawesi and Sumatra felt disappointed by
the financial allocation given by the central government
to the regional government.
– They demand an expansion of the regional autonomy.
 - October 17, 1952.
– The cabinet’s position became more and more unstable after
some land problems in East Sumatera that was known by the
name of Peristiwa Tanjung Morawa, October 17 1952.
– This incident happened after the government agreed to let
foreign businessman work their plantation land.
– Besides, the interference from Politic Parties to the ground
forces caused a demonstration on the National Palace.
– This demonstration is to file the dissolution of the
parliament and to change it into a new parliament .
– Beside that, this demonstration is to force to have the
upcoming election
– This demonstration was planned and led by some
commissioned officers form the ground forces, such as
Lieutenant Colonel Sutoko, Colonel dr. Mustopo,
Lieutenant Colonel Kemal Idris, and Lieutinant
Colonel S. Parman.
– Soekarno, whom then was the President of Indonesia,
rejected the idea of dissolution of the parliament for
the reason being that he didn’t want to be the
dictator.
– Because of the lack of success for this demonstration,
the commander-in-chief of the ground forces,
Commander A.H. Nasution, had to resign.
 - March 16 1953.
– On 16 March 1953, the tragedy of Tanjung Morawa in Deli Serdang,
North Sumatra occurred.
– This tragedy happened because of land clearing by land cultivators.
– A clash then happened between protestors, the land cultivators and
the police officers.
– A mass shooting later happened in this incident that injured 21
people and 6 people among them were killed.
– At the end, these two tragedies made P.M Wilopo give back the
cabinet’s mandate to the first President of Indonesia, Soekarno, on
2 June 1953.