Abdulrachman Setjowibowo

Abdulrachman Setjowibowo was born on 21 September 1916 in Kebumen, a regency of the Dutch East Indies.{{Cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae|url=http://www.indonesian-embassy.fi/in/filemanager/CV%20abdulrachman.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714235413/http://www.indonesian-embassy.fi/in/filemanager/CV%20abdulrachman.pdf|archive-date=14 July 2012|access-date=2012-07-14|website=Embassy of Indonesia in Helsinki}} He worked as a bureaucrat for the Dutch East Indies Government in the Grobogan Regency{{Cite news|date=6 March 1940|title=Midden-Java|work=De locomotief|url=https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=Setjowibowo&coll=ddd&sortfield=datedesc&identifier=MMKB23:003476096:mpeg21:a00036&resultsidentifier=MMKB23:003476096:mpeg21:a00036&rowid=3}} and continued his career after Japanese forces occupied the Dutch East Indies. One of his positions during the occupation period was as the head of the Pulukulon District.{{Cite news|date=1943|title=Oeroesan Pegawai Negeri|page=38|work=Kan Pō|issue=31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZksnAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA9-PA38|access-date=17 June 2021}}

Abdulrachman entered police service following the independence of Indonesia in 1945. He was appointed as the Head of the Organizational Affairs in the Indonesian police in 1950s. Several years later, in August 1956, he and three other police officers was sent to the United States to attend a police course for six months.{{Cite news|date=28 August 1956|title=Gaande en komende man|work=De nieuwsgier|url=https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=Setjowibowo&coll=ddd&sortfield=datedesc&identifier=ddd:010478489:mpeg21:a0025&resultsidentifier=ddd:010478489:mpeg21:a0025&rowid=2|access-date=18 June 2021}} He later became the expert staff to the chief of police in international affairs and head of the foreign relation division in the national police.{{Cite book|last=Danusubroto|first=Sidarto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M4puAAAAMAAJ&q=Setjowibowo+|title=Sidarto Danusubroto: dari ajudan sampai wakil rakyat|date=2003|publisher=Pustaka Sinar Harapan|isbn=978-979-416-780-9|pages=107, 112|language=id}}

Abdulrachman's rank was promoted from police senior commissioner to brigadier general in the midst of his tenure as a member of parliament.{{cite book|author=Tim Penyusun Sejarah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OO4jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA322|title=Seperempat Abad Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia|date=1970|publisher=Sekretariat DPR-GR|location=Jakarta|page=322, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OO4jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA634 634]|language=id|trans-title=A Quarter Century of the People's Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia}} He received another promotion to major general while holding the office of director general. He retired from the police force in January 1971.{{Cite news|date=19 January 1971|title=Pengachiran Ikatan Dinas Aktif: Hendaknja Diartikan Sebagai Peralihan Tugas|page=1|work=Kompas|url=http://www.kompasdata.id/Search/NewsDetail/19661748|access-date=18 June 2021}}

After holding various positions inside the police forces, Abdulrachman was appointed as the member of the newly formed National Planning Council (predecessor of the Ministry of National Development Planning) in July 1959.{{Cite book|url=http://lib.ui.ac.id/file?file=digital/20377945-Almanak%20lembaga-lembaga%20negara%20dan%20kepartaian,%201961.pdf|title=Almanak Lembaga-Lembaga Negara dan Kepartaian|publisher=Ministry of Information|year=1961|location=Jakarta|pages=314}} He was sworn into office on 14 August 1959.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gkvmjKK96IkC|title=Lampiran Ketetapan: garis-garis besar pola pembangunan nasional-semesta-berentjana tahapan pertama 1961-1969|date=1960|publisher=Provisional People's Consultative Assembly and the Department of Information|pages=113|language=id}}

A month after he was sworn into office, the plenary session of the council was held on 21 September. He joined the council's statehood section and later became the member of the defence and security section until November 1959.{{Cite web|date=1959|title=Laporan Jang Disusun Oleh Seksi Kenegaraan DEPERNAS|url=https://www.bappenas.go.id/files/2913/5228/1449/depernas-07__20091006095416__2108__0.doc|url-status=live|access-date=19 June 2021|website=Bappenas|page=I|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202138/https://www.bappenas.go.id/files/2913/5228/1449/depernas-07__20091006095416__2108__0.doc |archive-date=2021-06-24 }} Afterwards, he was moved to the national research section from December 1959 until February 1960 before returning to the defence and security section from March until April 1960.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gkvmjKK96IkC|title=Lampiran Ketetapan: garis-garis besar pola pembangunan nasional-semesta-berentjana tahapan pertama 1961-1969|date=1960|publisher=Provisional People's Consultative Assembly and the Department of Information|pages=114, 118, 121|language=id}}

Abdulrachman was appointed as a member of the council's working body in January 1961. The body was tasked to assist the President of Indonesia in planning, assessing, and supervise the national development progress. He continued to hold membership until the National Planning Council was dissolved in 1963.{{Cite book|url=http://lib.ui.ac.id/file?file=digital/20377945-Almanak%20lembaga-lembaga%20negara%20dan%20kepartaian,%201961.pdf|title=Almanak Lembaga-Lembaga Negara dan Kepartaian|publisher=Ministry of Information|year=1961|location=Jakarta|pages=319}}

On 24 June 1960, Abdulrachman was appointed as a member of the newly formed People's Representative Council of Mutual Assistance, representing the armed forces and the police forces inside the parliament. He was sworn in for the office the day after.

As members of the People's Representative Council were also members of the People's Consultative Assembly, Abdulrachman had to became members of committees in both chambers. He became a member of the C committee — which handles governance, security, and defence affairs — in the People's Consultative Assembly and a member of the B commission — which handles finance — in the People's Representative Council.{{Cite book|url=http://lib.ui.ac.id/file?file=digital/20377945-Almanak%20lembaga-lembaga%20negara%20dan%20kepartaian,%201961.pdf|title=Almanak Lembaga-Lembaga Negara dan Kepartaian|publisher=Ministry of Information|year=1961|location=Jakarta|pages=55, 149}}

Abdulrachman became a candidate in a Golkar internal primary for the party's parliament speaker nominee in May 1966. He only obtained six out of seventy five votes in the primary and lost to Mursalin Daeng Mamangung and Sjarif Thajeb.

Abdulrachman was elected as the chairman of the parliament's budget committee after serving several years as a regular member. He handed over his office to fellow police officer Mansur on 13 March 1968.{{Cite news|last=HK|date=14 March 1968|title=Pimpinan panitya anggaran DPR-GR jang baru|page=1|work=Kompas|url=http://www.kompasdata.id/Search/NewsDetail/19827580|access-date=19 June 2021}} During his tenure in the budget committee, Setjowibowo was involved in examining the bill on improvement and renewal of the state tax collection submitted by the government. He criticized the bill by stating that the bill's title was in contradiction with its content and that a clause in the bill which would give powers to the finance minister to change tax ordinances violated article 33 of the constitution.{{Cite news|last=DTS|date=4 July 1967|title=Pemerintah & DPR-GR Bitjarakan Soal Penjempurnaan Tjara² Pemungutan Padjak|work=Kompas|url=https://soeharto.co/pemerintah-dpr-gr-bitjarakan-soal-penjempurnaan-tjara2-pemungutan-padjak/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018163839/http://soeharto.co/pemerintah-dpr-gr-bitjarakan-soal-penjempurnaan-tjara2-pemungutan-padjak|url-status=usurped|archive-date=18 October 2016|access-date=19 June 2021}}

Aside from his career in the parliament and politics, Abdulrachman was also active in football organizations. He was one of the key figures in organizing the 1962 Asian Games{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XesNAQAAIAAJ|title=General Programmes: Ganefo-I, 10-22 November, Djakarta, 1963|date=1963|publisher=Komite Nasional Ganefo|pages=7, 10|language=en}} and later became the honorary chairman of the football team Persija Jakarta and the deputy chairman of the Football Association of Indonesia. When an internal conflict between Persija and the association occurred, Abdulrachman became the acting chairman of the association after the previous chairman, Maulwi Saelan, left his post.{{Cite news|last=LS|date=23 June 1967|title=Mosi tak pertjaja thd pengurus Persidja|page=2|work=Kompas|url=http://www.kompasdata.id/Search/NewsDetail/19833829|access-date=19 June 2021}}{{Cite book|last=Palupi|first=Srie Agustina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OruBAAAAMAAJ|title=Politik dan sepak bola di Jawa, 1920-1942|date=2004|publisher=Ombak|isbn=978-979-3472-11-9|pages=111|language=id}} He later went on to became Indonesia's representative in the Asian Games Federation Council for the 1970 Asian Games.{{Cite book|url=https://www.satc.or.th/upload/library/file/libraryfile_2322019173017.pdf|title=Opening Ceremony|publisher=The Organizing Committee for the Sixth Asian Games|year=1970|location=Bangkok|pages=6|access-date=19 June 2021|archive-date=2021-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202609/https://www.satc.or.th/upload/library/file/libraryfile_2322019173017.pdf|url-status=dead}}

After serving as a member of parliament for nine years, Abdulrachman became the Director General of Agrarian Affairs under the Ministry of Home Affairs on 29 March 1969.{{Cite web|date=1969|title=Upacara pelantikan Dirjen2 P.M.D. dan Agraria masing2 Brigjen. Sudarmo Djajadiwangsa dan Brig.Jen. Pol. R. Abdulrahcman BBA. oleh Menteri Dalam Negeri May.Jen. Amir Machmud tgl. 29/3/1969 di Dept. Dalam Negeri [gambar]|url=https://opac.perpusnas.go.id/DetailOpac.aspx?id=276446|url-status=live|website=National Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624210622/https://opac.perpusnas.go.id/DetailOpac.aspx?id=276446 |archive-date=2021-06-24 }}

He was replaced from the office by Daryono on 5 August 1978.{{Cite news|date=August 1978|title=Serah Terima Dirjen PUOD dan Agraria|page=16|work=Mimbar Departemen Dalam Negeri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5_xxJr2cYkC&pg=RA15-PA16|access-date=19 June 2021}} Several months prior to his replacement, he was appointed by the Minister of Research and Technology as the deputy chairman of the research team for land matters.{{Cite web|date=15 January 1978|title=Pengangkatan Keanggotaan Team Penelitian Masalah Pertahanan|url=https://ittama.ristekbrin.go.id/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/004-M-Kp-I78-PENGANGKATAN-KEANGGOTAAN-TEAM-PENELITIAN-MASALAH-PERTAHANAN.pdf|access-date=19 June 2021|website=RISTEKBRIN}}{{dead link|date=August 2023}}

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Abdulrachman was nominated as the Indonesia Ambassador to Finland not long after his resignation from the directorate general. The Finland government approved his nomination in early June 1979,{{Cite news|date=8 June 1979|title=Ambassador to Finland|work=Antara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XvyRIN7vNyQC&q=Setjowibowo+international|access-date=19 June 2021}} and Abdulrachman was sworn in as the Indonesia Ambassador to Finland on 23 June 1979.{{Cite news|last=DTS|first=|date=25 June 1979|title=Bergerak Aktif dan Tangguh untuk Jelaskan Aspirasi Indonesia|work=Suara Karya|url=https://soeharto.co/1979-06-23-menerima-dubes-afganistan-presiden-soeharto-gerakan-non-blok-perlu-perjuangkan-tata-ekonomi-dunia-baru-yang-berkeadilan/|url-status=usurped|access-date=17 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026062353/https://soeharto.co/1979-06-23-menerima-dubes-afganistan-presiden-soeharto-gerakan-non-blok-perlu-perjuangkan-tata-ekonomi-dunia-baru-yang-berkeadilan/|archive-date=2020-10-26}} In the midst of his tenure as ambassador, Abdulrachman died on 24 June 1982 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.{{Cite news|date=29 June 1982|title=Overledenen|work=Het Parool|url=https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=Setjowibowo&coll=ddd&sortfield=datedesc&identifier=ABCDDD:010846946:mpeg21:a0176&resultsidentifier=ABCDDD:010846946:mpeg21:a0176&rowid=1|access-date=18 June 2021}} He was buried at a cemetery in Kuncen, Yogyakarta.{{Cite news|date=29 June 1982|title=Jenazah Mayjen (Pol) Abdulrachman Setjowibowo dimakamkan hari ini|page=3|work=Kompas|url=http://www.kompasdata.id/Search/NewsDetail/19325280|access-date=18 June 2021}}

Abdulrachman's daughter, Nani Supadmiani Titi Utari, was married to Mohammad Sarengat, an Indonesian field sprinter and military doctor. When Sarengat was about to be deployed to West Kalimantan during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation, Abdulrachman visited Utari to console her and persuade her to accept Sarengat's departure.{{Cite news|date=15 August 2018|title=Bintang Terang Dokter Militer|work=Tempo|url=https://majalah.tempo.co/read/laporan-khusus/156010/bintang-terang-dokter-militer|access-date=18 June 2021}}

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