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Mohammad Hatta was an important figure in the struggle for Indonesian independence who served as the first Vice President of Indonesia. He studied economics in the Netherlands and cooperatives in Scandinavian countries. Hatta promoted cooperatives in Indonesia as a way to strengthen the economy and foster self-help among citizens. On July 12, 1947, he established Cooperative Day in Indonesia and was named the Father of Indonesian Cooperatives for his contributions to the economic system. Hatta died on March 14, 1980 in Jakarta after several hospitalizations.

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Moh Hatta

Mohammad Hatta was an important figure in the struggle for Indonesian independence who served as the first Vice President of Indonesia. He studied economics in the Netherlands and cooperatives in Scandinavian countries. Hatta promoted cooperatives in Indonesia as a way to strengthen the economy and foster self-help among citizens. On July 12, 1947, he established Cooperative Day in Indonesia and was named the Father of Indonesian Cooperatives for his contributions to the economic system. Hatta died on March 14, 1980 in Jakarta after several hospitalizations.

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MOH HATTA

Mohammad Hatta was born to Muhammad Djamil and Siti Saleha who came from Minangkabau . His
father was a descendant of Naqshbandiyah ulama in Batuhampar , near Payakumbuh , West Sumatra
and his mother came from a merchant family in Bukittinggi . He was born with the name Muhammad
Athar on August 12, 1902. His name, Athar comes from Arabic , which means "fragrant". Athar was born
as the second child, after Rafiah who was born in 1900. Since childhood, he has been educated and
raised in a family environment that adheres to the teachings of Islam . His grandfather on his father's
side, Abdurrahman Batuhampar, was known as the founding cleric of Surau Batuhampar , the few surau
that survived after the Padri War . Meanwhile, his mother came from a family of traders. Some of his
mothers are big businessmen in Jakarta .

Mohammad Hatta was an important figure in the struggle for Indonesian independence, an
Indonesian statesman and economist who served as the first Vice President of Indonesia . He and
Soekarno were Proclaimers of Independence , playing a central role in the struggle for Indonesian
independence from Dutch colonialism and proclaimed it on 17 August 1945. He served as Prime Minister
in the Hatta I , Hatta II and RIS Cabinets . In 1956, he resigned as vice president.

His interest in economics and trade made Hatta, who was 19 years old at the time, continue his studies
in the Netherlands on August 3, 1921. On September 5, 1921, Hatta arrived in the Netherlands and
immediately enrolled in the Higher School of Commerce (Handels Hogeschool, now Erasmus University)
in the city of Rotterdam.

Not only studying in the Netherlands, but Hatta also studied in Scandinavian countries. In 1925,
together with his friend Samsi, Hatta visited Denmark, Norway and Sweden to study cooperatives.

In these northern European countries, he studied cooperatives, starting from the economic
organization system that is democratically owned by its members. In Denmark, he witnessed how
agricultural cooperatives enabled farmers and breeders to export butter, cheese, and chicken eggs to
the United States. In Sweden, he witnessed the success of consumer cooperatives. In Norway, he saw
cooperatives formed by fishermen produce a vibrant fishing business.
From studying cooperatives from this distant country, Hatta became the father of Indonesian
Cooperatives. Because according to Hatta and other leaders of the Indonesian movement, cooperatives
have a higher spirit of nationalism and are not characterized by capitalism which is not suitable for
Indonesian nature.

Understandably, cooperatives have similarities with the original social system of the Indonesian
people, namely collectivism. Indonesian society has always been known as gotong royong, fond of
helping each other. While cooperatives also adhere to similar principles with a spirit of mutual
assistance.

Furthermore, Bung Hatta said, cooperatives will also educate the spirit of belief in one's own strength
(self-help). At the very least, this spirit of self-help is needed to eradicate the "inferiority complex"
inherited from colonialism.

More importantly, said Bung Hatta, cooperatives can forge a weak people's economy to become
strong. Cooperatives can rationalize the economy, namely by shortening the path from production to
consumption. For Bung Hatta, cooperatives were a weapon of fellowship for the weak to survive.
With Hatta's concern for the people and the Indonesian economy, Hatta encouraged the populist
economic movement through cooperatives. According to Hatta, the goal of the state is to prosper the
people based on the principle of kinship and the most suitable form of economy for Indonesia is a 'joint
venture' on a family basis.

Two years after Indonesia gained independence, on July 12, 1947, Hatta - who was then Vice
President of Indonesia - held the First Cooperative Congress in Tasikmalaya which established July 12 as
Cooperative Day in Indonesia. After Indonesia achieved recognition of sovereignty from the
Netherlands, on July 12, 1951, Hatta made a radio speech commemorating Cooperative Day in
Indonesia. For Hatta's contribution to the Indonesian economy, Hatta was appointed as the Father of
Indonesian Cooperatives in 1953 during the second congress in Bandung.
There are 7 operational principles of Indonesian cooperatives internally and externally developed by
Hatta, namely:
Voluntary and open membership
Control by members in a democratic manner
Economic participation of members
Autonomy of freedom
Education
Training and information
Cooperation between operations and concern for the community

Hatta died on March 14 1980 at 18.56 at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in Jakarta after eleven days of
treatment there. [79] During his life, Bung Hatta was hospitalized 6 times in 1963, 1967, 1971, 1976,
1979, and most recently on March 3 1980. The following day, he was laid to rest at his residence Jalan
Diponegoro 57, Jakarta and buried at TPU Tanah Kusir , Jakarta was welcomed with a state ceremony led
directly by the Vice President at the time, Adam Malik . He was declared a Proclaiming Hero in 1986 by
the Soeharto government .

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