Eny Karim

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Eny Karim
Karim as Minister of Agriculture
Minister of Agriculture
In office
26 March 1956 – 14 March 1957
Prime MinisterAli Sastroamidjojo
Preceded byMohammad Sardjan
Succeeded bySadjarwo Djarwonagoro
Governor of North Sumatra
(Acting)
In office
8 April 1963 – 15 July 1963
Preceded byRaja Junjungan Lubis
Succeeded byUlung Sitepu
Personal details
Born(1910-10-22)22 October 1910
Batusangkar, West Sumatra
Died5 September 1995(1995-09-05) (aged 84)
Jakarta, Indonesia
Political partyIndonesian National Party

Eny Karim (22 October 1910 – 5 September 1995), also spelled as Eni Karim, was an Indonesian politician and civil servant from West Sumatra who served as Minister of Agriculture under the Second Ali Sastroamidjojo Cabinet, and briefly as governor of North Sumatra in 1963.

Early life

Karim was born in Batusangkar, today in the Tanah Datar Regency of West Sumatra, on 22 October 1910. He underwent education in Bukittinggi, completing elementary education in 1924, MULO in 1927, and a "nobility school" (MOSVIA) training local nobility to be civil servants in 1931.[1]

Career

After completing school, Karim was assigned by the colonial government to Pontianak, where he worked for eight years before he returned to West Sumatra to be assigned in Solok. After the Japanese invasion, Karim went into hiding for some time as the Japanese sought to capture former colonial officials before a lack of administrative personnel prompted the Japanese to offer Karim his civil servant work back. He was assigned to Bukittinggi in 1943, working there a year before being reassigned to Air Bangis, West Pasaman Regency. He returned to Bukittinggi in mid-1945.[2]

Following Indonesian independence, Karim began to work under the Indonesian government. He was briefly detained by

Masyumi rebels during the 3 March affair, though the rebellion was short-lived and Karim was soon after freed.[2][3] He served as the secretary to the Republican military governor of Central Sumatra, Sutan Mohammad Rasjid [id], between Operation Kraai and the end of the revolution.[4] He also headed the residency of West Sumatra, under the military governor.[5] For a time, he also taught as a lecturer in a civil servant academy which was established in Bukittinggi.[6]

During the post-revolutionary period, Karim was appointed as Minister of Agriculture, representing the Indonesian National Party, for the Second Ali Sastroamidjojo Cabinet.[7] He was dispatched to lead the Indonesian delegation to the FAO.[1] In a period of high tensions in West Sumatra, in January 1957 Karim was sent to lead a delegation from the national government to the "Banteng Council". While Karim and his entourage were accepted, the council refused to negotiate with the group. Karim's later press statement in Jakarta received a counterreaction from the council, as Karim claimed that he had negotiated a form of settlement and gave some money to the council.[8] Karim was in Bukittinggi to continue negotiations in February 1958 when the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia (PRRI) was declared, and he was detained by PRRI.[9]

Karim joined the

Indonesian Communist Party. He held this post until a new governor was elected and sworn in by the provincial legislature on 15 July 1963.[13] He was retired as a civil servant in 1967.[4]

He died on 5 September 1995 in Jakarta, and was buried at the Karet Cemetery.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Idris 2001, p. 42.
  2. ^ a b Idris 2001, pp. 43–44.
  3. ^ Bahar 2018, p. 117.
  4. ^ a b c Idris 2001, p. 45.
  5. ^ Asnan 2007, p. 93.
  6. ^ Bahar 2018, p. 131.
  7. ISBN 978-979-3780-45-0
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  8. ^ Asnan 2007, pp. 184–185.
  9. ISBN 978-90-5356-395-3
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  10. ^ "Tokoh Minang, Dari Walikota Bukittinggi yang Jadi Menteri". Padang Kita (in Indonesian). 29 August 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  11. ^ Panitia Penyusun Naskah 1966, p. 308.
  12. ^ "Pelantikan Sekretaris² Wampa dan Pembantu² Menteri". Mimbar Penerangan. No. 1. 1963. pp. 67–71. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  13. ISBN 9789791521208
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