Banten is the westernmost province on the island of Java,Indonesia. Its capital city is Serang. The province borders West Java and the Special Capital Region of Jakarta on the east,the Java Sea on the north,the Indian Ocean on the south,and the Sunda Strait on the west. The province covers an area of 9,662.82 km2 (3,730.84 sq mi). It had a population of over 11.9 million in the 2020 census,up from about 10.6 million in 2010. The estimated mid-2021 population was 12.06 million. Formerly part of the province of West Java,Banten was declared a separate province in 2000. The region is the homeland of the Bantenese people,whose culture differs slightly from that of West Java's Sundanese people. The northern half has recently experienced rapid rises in population and urbanization,and the southern half has a more traditional character.
The 1945 State Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia is the supreme law and basis for all laws of Indonesia.
The Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence,sometimes referred to as the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Indonesian Independence,was an organization set up in March 1945 by the Japanese military authority in Java during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies as the initial stage of the establishment of independence for the area under the control of the Japanese 16th Army. The BPUPK held two plenary meetings;the first was from 28 May to 1 June 1945 and the second was between 10 and 17 July 1945.
The Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence,PPKI,Japanese:独立準備委員会,romanized: Dokuritsu Junbi Iinkai) was a body established on 7 August 1945 to prepare for the transfer of authority from the occupying Japanese to Indonesia. It approved and promulgated the first Indonesian constitution,and appointed Sukarno president.
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. The Working Committee of the KNIP became part of the People's Representative Council when Indonesia became a unitary state in 1950.
Oto Iskandar di Nata was an Indonesian politician and National Hero.
Mas Mansoer was an Indonesian religious leader who served as the 4th chairman of Muhammadiyah from 1937 to 1942. He was declared a national hero by President Sukarno in 1964.
Alexander Andries Maramis,more commonly known simply as A. A. Maramis,was an Indonesian politician and National Hero of Indonesia,who was involved in the struggle for independence. He was a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence (BPUPK),the organization which drafted the Constitution of Indonesia. In the early stages of the Indonesian government,following the Proclamation of Independence,he served as both Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs. After the end of the Indonesian National Revolution,he served as the Indonesian ambassador to several nations,including the Philippines,West Germany,and the Soviet Union.
Brigadier General Kyai Hajji Syam'un better known as Ki Syam'un was an Islamic scholar and fighter for Indonesian Independence. In 1916,Syam'un founded the Pesantren Al-Khairiyah,which in subsequent development became Al-Khairiyah Islamic College as an educational institution and organization. Syam'un received military education during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and was later be appointed Battalion Commander (Daidancho) in the Pembela Tanah Air volunteer army. In 1945,he was appointed regent of Serang until his death in 1949.He was awarded the title National Hero of Indonesia in 2018.
Kyai Hajji Wasyid bin Muhammad Abbas better known as Ki Wasyid,was an Indonesian hero who led the Cilegon war on July 9,1888 until his fall on the battlefield on July 30,1888 in Banten. In practice,Ki Wasyid's movement in the war was heavily influenced by the thinking of his teachers:Nawawi al-Bantani and Abdul Karim al-Bantani,a murshid of Qadiriyyah wa Naqshbandiyah tariqa.
Sheikh Mas Mohammad Arsyad Thawil al-Bantani better known as Sheikh Arsyad Thawil was an ulama and Indonesian hero who also fought on the Cilegon War from 9 to 30 July 1888 with Ki Wasyid,Tubagus Ismail,and others. Thawil was a student of Sheikh Nawawi al-Bantani,an Indonesian Islamic teacher from Banten who became the Imam of the Great Mosque of Mecca.
Ratu Bagus Hendra Bambang Wisanggeni Soerjaatmadja,M.B.A. is the 18th sultan of Banten who was crowned on December 11,2016 with the title of Sultan Syarif Muhammad ash-Shafiuddin Azmatkhan al-Husaini.
Abuya Kyai Hajji Ahmad Muhtadi bin Dimyathi al-Bantani or better known as Abuya Muhtadi is an Indonesian Muslim cleric from Banten. He is known as one of the Muslim scholars close to President Joko Widodo. At the Zikir Kebangsaan which was first held by the Indonesian government in the Merdeka Palace in 2017,Muhtadi was one of the religious leaders invited by the president. In the 2019 Indonesian presidential election,he supported a friend who was also a Muslim cleric from Banten,Ma'ruf Amin,who became the running mate of incumbent presidential candidate,Joko Widodo. Even so,in the 2014 Indonesian presidential election,he supported Prabowo Subianto as a candidate for Indonesian President and instructed his students to vote for Subianto.
Johannes Latuharhary was an Indonesian politician and nationalist of Moluccan descent,who served as the first Indonesian governor of Maluku from 1945 until 1955,though he did not assume office in Maluku until 1950. A Protestant Christian,Latuharhary was an early proponent of Moluccan inclusion in the Indonesian state and he was an active participant in the struggle for Indonesia's independence.
Mr. Raden Sastromoeljono was a lawyer and the acting mayor of Jakarta. He was a member of the Perhimpoenan Indonesia organization,and in 1945 was appointed as the member Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence.
Hilman Djajadiningrat was an Indonesian aristocrat and politician.
Kyai Haji Abdoel Halim,often known as KH Abdoel Halim (1887-1962) was an Indonesian Islamic scholar and nationalist figure. He founded a number of Islamic organizations in the Dutch East Indies,including the Hayatul Qulub and the Persyarikatan Ulama and was a member of several national consultative councils during the transition to Indonesian independence in the 1940s. He was declared a National Hero of Indonesia in 2008 by then-president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Samsi Sastrawidagda was an Indonesian politician who was the first Minister of Finance of Indonesia,serving for just under one month in September 1945. He was also one of the founders of the Indonesian National Party.
Husein Jayadiningrat,or Hoesein Djajadiningrat in older spelling,was an Indonesian scholar in Indonesian studies,Islamic law,and native Indonesian literature. He distinguished himself as one of the first native Indonesian to earn a doctoral degree.
Oey Tiang Tjoei was an Indonesian journalist,known for being a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence. Prior to the Pacific War,he was a prominent supporter of Japanese Pan-Asianism.
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