Rajiman Wediodiningrat

{{Short description|National Hero of Indonesia}}

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| honorific_prefix = Kanjeng Raden Tumenggung

| name = Rajiman Wediodiningrat

| image = Radjiman Wediodiningrat, Kami Perkenalkan (1952), p77.jpg

| caption = Radjiman Wedyodiningrat, 1952

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1879|4|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Yogyakarta, Dutch East Indies

| death_date = {{death date and age|1952|9|20|1879|4|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Ngawi, Indonesia

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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).{{Cite web |last=Parlina |first=Ina |date=9 September 2013 |title=Govt names three new national heroes |url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/11/09/govt-names-three-new-national-heroes.html |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=The Jakarta Post |language=en}} 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 Marshall Hisaichi Terauchi, the Japanese commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group.{{Cite book |last=Ricklefs |first=Merle Calvin |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7273462 |title=A history of modern Indonesia, c. 1300 to the present |date=1981 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-19593-4 |edition=4th |location=Bloomington |pages=341 |oclc=7273462 |author-link=M. C. Ricklefs}}

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.

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Category:1879 births

Category:1952 deaths

Category:20th-century Indonesian physicians

Category:BPUPK

Category:Members of the Volksraad (Dutch East Indies)

Category:National Heroes of Indonesia

Category:People from Yogyakarta

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