Sarino Mangunpranoto

Sarino Mangunpranoto
Sarino Mangunpranoto
	Sarino, c.1950
Minister of Education and Culture
	In office; 27 March 1966 – 11 October 1967
Preceded by	Prijono
Succeeded by	Sanusi Hardjadinata
	In office; 24 March 1956 – 14 March 1957
Preceded by	Soewandi Notokoesoemo
Succeeded by	Prijono
Ambassador of Indonesia to Hungary
	In office; 1962–1966
Member of People's Representative Council
	In office; 25 June 1960 – 11 August 1962
	In office; 16 August 1950 – 15 April 1956
United States of Indonesia Senator; from Central Java
	In office; 16 February 1950 – 16 August 1950
Personal details
Born	15 January 1910; Purworejo, Dutch East Indies
Died	17 January 1983 (aged 73); Jakarta, Indonesia
Political party	Indonesian National Party

Sarino Mangunpranoto (15 January 1910 – 17 January 1983) was an Indonesian politician and educator who served as the Minister of Education between 1956 and 1957 and again between 1966 and 1967. He was also a senator during the United States of Indonesia period, representing Central Java, was ambassador to Hungary between 1962 and 1966, and served for eight years in the People's Representative Council.

Early life and education

Sarino was born in Begelen, part of what is today Purworejo Regency. After completing his primary education in Purworejo and in Kebumen, he joined the Taman Siswa in Yogyakarta where he completed training to become a teacher there in 1929.[1]

Career

After the completion of his education, Sarino joined Taman Siswa as a teacher. He remained in the organization for thirteen years, most of his time being spent as a head teacher in a Pemalang branch of the school.[1][2] Prior to his move to Pemalang, he had joined the Indonesia Party (Partindo) and ran political courses for Taman Siswa pupils.[1] He moved to Pati and founded a fisheries cooperative after the Taman Siswa schools were shut down during the Japanese occupation.[3]

During the Indonesian National Revolution, Sarino was active as a member of the Indonesian National Party, founding a branch in Pati and being elected to its central leadership in 1948.[3] After the end of hostilities, Sarino became a member of the Senate of the United States of Indonesia, representing Central Java,[4] and after its dissolution he joined the People's Representative Council.[2] He was later appointed as chairman of PNI's Central Java branch in 1956.[3] Sarino was also elected into the People's Representative Council following the 1955 election, but he resigned after less than a month in office.[5] In the early 1950s, he had also re-founded and taught in a secondary school under the Taman Siswa name in Semarang, and participated in journalism by editing the Tanah Air daily newspaper.[3][6]

Sarino was appointed as Minister of Teaching, Education and Culture in the Second Ali Sastroamidjojo Cabinet, and held his position from 24 March 1956 to 14 March 1957.[7] He was also member of the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia between 1956 and 1959.[2] Later, he rejoined the People's Representative Council (at the time known as the DPR-GR, People's Representative Council of Mutual Assistance) in 25 June 1960, but he was honorably discharged from the body by presidential decision, effective on 11 August 1962,[8] and he was posted to Hungary as ambassador until 1966.[9] He later returned to being Minister of Education and Culture in the Second Revised Dwikora Cabinet between 27 March and 25 July 1966, and following Suharto's takeover, Sarino continued to be Minister of Education in the Ampera Cabinet, where he served between 25 July 1966 and 11 October 1967.[10]

Views and works

He was described by an acquaintance as a "natural educator". Among his published writings, he wrote about the educational value of children's play, development of a national educational system, informal education, and ideas of Ki Hajar Dewantara.[3] In one attempt to combine formal and nonformal education, he founded a "Farming High School" in Ungaran in 1961, and he also founded further schools throughout his life.[3][11]

Death

Sarino died on 17 January 1983, when he was delivering a speech in Jakarta.[12] He was buried at the Wijaya Brata Cemetery, a cemetery reserved for people associated with the Taman Siswa.[11] At the time of his death, he had five sons and a daughter.[13]

References

Lucas 1983, p. 133.
"Sarino Mangun Pranoto". konstituante.net (in Indonesian). Retrieved 16 January 2020.
Lucas 1983, pp. 135-136.
Tim Penyusun Sejarah 1970, p. 584.
Tim Penyusun Sejarah 1970, p. 615.
Daftar persuratkabaran jang diterbitkan di Indonesia (in Indonesian). Kementerian Penerangan, Bag. Dokumentasi. 1951. p. 35.
Directorate General of Culture 1986, p. 332.
Tim Penyusun Sejarah 1970, p. 645.
"Keputusan Presiden Republik Indonesia No. 222 Tahun 1966" (PDF). setkab.go.id (in Indonesian). Retrieved 16 January 2020.
Directorate General of Culture 1986, p. 154.
"SFMA sesudah Sarino". Tempo (in Indonesian). 5 February 1983. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
Lucas 1983, p. 137.
Sumardi, S. (1984). Menteri-Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan sejak tahun 1966 (in Indonesian). Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Direktorat Sejarah dan Nilai Tradisional, Proyek Inventarisasi dan Dokumentasi Sejarah Nasional. p. 4.

Bibliography

Lucas, Anton (1983). "In Memoriam: Ki Sarino Mangunpranoto, 1910-1983". Indonesia (35): 133–137. ISSN 0019-7289. JSTOR 3350870.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Hp, Suradi; Safwan, Mardanas; Latuconsina, Djuariah (1986). Sejarah Pemikiran Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (in Indonesian). Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan.
Tim Penyusun Sejarah (1970). Seperempat Abad Dewan Perwakilan Rakjat Republik Indonesia [A Quarter Century of the People's Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia] (PDF) (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Sekretariat DPR-GR.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)