The second Sjahrir Cabinet was the third Indonesia

Indonesia

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n cabinet and the second formed by Sutan Sjahrir

Sutan Sjahrir

Sutan Sjahrir , an avant garde and idealistic Indonesian intellectual, was a revolutionary independence leader...

. It served from to March to June 1946.

Background

The first Sjahrir cabinet

Sjahrir I Cabinet

The first Sjahrir Cabinet was the second Indonesian cabinet. It served from November 1945 to February 1946.-Background:The first Sjahrir cabinet was established following the 11 November 1945, demand from the Central Indonesian National Committee, which was the de facto legislature, that the...

 had been forced to resign by Tan Malaka

Tan Malaka

Tan Malaka was an Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader. A staunch critic of both the colonial Dutch East Indies government and the republican Sukarno administration that governed the country after the Indonesian National Revolution, he was also frequently in conflict with the...

 and his opposition Struggle. Front President Sukarno

Sukarno

Sukarno, born Kusno Sosrodihardjo was the first President of Indonesia.Sukarno was the leader of his country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands and was Indonesia's first President from 1945 to 1967...

 then offered this group the chance to form a new government, but it was unable to do so principally because of fears from other members of the group that Tan Malaka would try and replace Sukarno. Sukarno, with the support of the Central Indonesian National Committee

Central Indonesian National Committee

The Central Indonesian National Committee or KNIP, was a body appointed to assist the president of the newly independent Indonesia. Originally purely advisory, it later gained assumed legislative functions...

 (KNIP), then asked Sjahrir to form a new cabinet. The KNIP asked Sjahrir to form a cabinet including a wider range of opinion. Sjahrir agreed on the condition he would have the greater say in the choice of members.

Composition

Ten of the members of the previous cabinet served in the new cabinet. It contained members from a range of political parties, but Sjahrir's group was still dominant.

Prime Minister

• Prime Minister: Sutan Sjahrir
  Sutan Sjahrir
  Sutan Sjahrir , an avant garde and idealistic Indonesian intellectual, was a revolutionary independence leader...
  
   (Socialist Party
  Socialist Party (Indonesia)
  The Socialist Party was a political party in Indonesia. It was founded in December 1945 at a meeting in Cheribon, as the Socialist People's Party of Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir and the Socialist Party of Indonesia of Defence Minister Sjarifuddin merged...
  
  )

Departmental Ministers

• Minister of Foreign Affairs: Sutan Sjahrir
• Minister of Home Affairs: Soedarsono (Socialist Party)
• Minister of Defense: Amir Sjarifuddin
  Amir Sjarifuddin
  Amir Sjarifuddin Harahap, also spelled Amir Sjarifoeddin Harahap was a socialist politician and one of the Indonesian Republic's first leaders, becoming Prime Minister during the country's National Revolution. A Christian convert from a Muslim Batak family, Amir was a major leader of the Left...
  
   (Socialist Party)
• Minister of Justice: Soewandi
• Minister of Finance: Soerachman Tjokroadisuryo
• Minister of Agriculture and Supplies: Rasad
• Minister of Trade and Industry: Darmawan Mangoenkoesoemo
• Minister of Public Works: Putuhena (Indonesian Christian Party - Parkindo)
• Minister of Information: Muhammad Natsir
  Muhammad Natsir
  Mohammad Natsir was a Islamic scholar and politician. He was Indonesia's fifth prime minister.After moving to Bandung from his hometown Solok, West Sumatra for senior high school, Natsir studied Islamic doctrine extensively. His first articles were published in 1929, and during the 1930s he wrote...
  
   (Masyumi Party
  Masyumi Party
  Masyumi Party was a major Islamic political party in Indonesia during the Liberal Democracy Era in Indonesia. It was banned in 1960 by President Sukarno for supporting the PRRI rebellion.-History:...
  
  )
• Minister of Communications: Abdoel Karim
• Minister of Social Affairs: Maria Ulfa Santoso (Perwari/PPI)
• Minister of Health: Dr. Darma Setiawan
• Minister of Education: Todung Sutan Gunung Mulia (Parkindo)
• Minister of Religious Affairs: Mohammad Rasjidi (Masyumi)

Junior Ministers

• Junior Minister of Foreign Affairs: Agus Salim
  Agus Salim
  Haji Agus Salim was one of Indonesia's founding fathers and prominent diplomats. He played a leading role in the creation of the Indonesian constitution in 1945 and served as Indonesia's Foreign Minister between 1947 and 1949.-Early life:...
  
  
• Junior Minister of Defense: Arudji Kartawinata (Masyumi)
• Junior Minister of Justice: Hadi
• Junior Minister of Finance: Sjafruddin Prawiranegara
  Sjafruddin Prawiranegara
  Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, also written Syafruddin Prawiranegara, was an Indonesian politician, economist, and latterly Islamic philosopher.- Early life :...
  
   (Masyumi)
• Junior Minister of Agriculture and Supplies: Saksono (Socialist Party)
• Junior Minister of Communications: Djuanda
• Junior Minister of Public Works: Laoh (Indonesian National Party
  Indonesian National Party
  The Indonesian National Party is the same used by several political parties in Indonesia from 1927 until the present day.-Pre-independence:...
  
   - PNI)
• Junior Minister of Social Affairs: Abdul Madjid Djojoadiningrat (Socialist Party)
• Junior Minister of Health: Dr. Johannes Leimena
  Johannes Leimena
  Dr. Johannes Leimena was Deputy Prime Minister of Indonesia from 1957 - 1966 and served as Minister of Health under President Sukarno from 1946 - 1956. A Christian, he founded the Indonesian Christian Party in 1950...
  
  (Parkindo)
• Junior Minister of Education: Muhammad Sjafei

Changes

Minister of Justice Soewandi resigned on 22 June 1946 and four days later Minister of Agriculture and Supplies Rasad lost his job when the ministry he headed was merged into the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which later became the Ministry of Welfare. Darmawan Mangoenkoesoemo was appointed Minister of Welfare and Saksono as Junior Minister of Welfare.

The end of the cabinet

The second Sjahrir cabinet fell because of the kidnapping of Sjahrir and Darmawan Mangoenkoesoemo on 27 June 1946 by soldiers commanded by General Sudarsono. Like other opposition forces, they believed the government had betrayed the ideal of 100% independence by negotiating with the Dutch and conceding de facto Dutch control over parts of Indonesia. The rest of the cabinet held a meeting chaired by Amir Sjarifuddin and proposed transferring all powers to Sukarno. The president took control of the government by a decree issued on 28 June. This decree returned Indonesia to a presidential system and dissolved the cabinet.