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Tan Malaka

1897 - 1949

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Ibrahim Simabua Datuak (posthumous) Sutan Malaka also known as Tan Malaka (2 June 1897 – 21 February 1949) was an Indonesian statesman, teacher, Marxist, philosopher, founder of Struggle Union (Persatuan Perjuangan) and Murba Party, independent guerrilla and spy, Indonesian fighter, and national hero. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tan Malaka has received more than 314,119 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Tan Malaka is the 10,366th most popular politician (down from 9,020th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Indonesia (down from 24th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Indonesian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tan Malaka ranks 10,366 out of 19,576Before him are Luigi Pelloux, Tribhuvan of Nepal, Mstislav III of Kiev, Alexander I Aldea, Anne of Bohemia, and Vasiľ Biľak. After him are Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Ludwig von Cobenzl, Ashikaga Yoshitane, Armen Garo, Carl Lutz, and Rosamund Clifford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Tan Malaka ranks 149Before him are Zhang Guotao, Paul Ben-Haim, Ram Prasad Bismil, Dirk Stikker, Lya De Putti, and Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg. After him are Herman J. Mankiewicz, Lazare Ponticelli, Karl Decker, Paul Gallico, Nicholas Poppe, and Otto Struve. Among people deceased in 1949, Tan Malaka ranks 87Before him are Lead Belly, Amadeo Giannini, James Forrestal, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Kanji Ishiwara, and Boris Asafyev. After him are Otto Nerz, Martin Knudsen, Alfred J. Lotka, Jankel Adler, Douglas Hyde, and Antoun Saadeh.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Tan Malaka ranks 33 out of 158Before him are Raden Saleh (1811), Hamengkubuwono IX (1912), Hella Haasse (1918), Adam Malik (1917), Cut Nyak Dhien (1850), and Iskandar Muda (1583). After him are D. N. Aidit (1923), Sutan Sjahrir (1909), Abdul Haris Nasution (1918), Fatmawati (1923), Julius Darmaatmadja (1934), and Sultan Agung of Mataram (1593).

Among POLITICIANS In Indonesia

Among politicians born in Indonesia, Tan Malaka ranks 18Before him are Ma'ruf Amin (1943), Jusuf Kalla (1942), Ki Hajar Dewantara (1889), Hamengkubuwono IX (1912), Adam Malik (1917), and Iskandar Muda (1583). After him are D. N. Aidit (1923), Sutan Sjahrir (1909), Fatmawati (1923), Hamengkubuwono X (1946), Agus Salim (1884), and Amir Sjarifuddin (1907).