Mohammad Hatta

Vice President of Indonesia

12 August 1902 Fort de Kock, Dutch East Indies

14 March 1980(1980-03-14) (77) Jakarta, Indonesia

18 August 1945 – 1 December 1956

1st Vice President of Indonesia Mohammad Hatta ( listen  (help ·info ) ; 12 August 1902 – 14 March 1980) was an Indonesian statesman who served as the country's first vice president. Known as "The Proclamator", he and a number of Indonesians, including the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno, fought for the independence of Indonesia from the Dutch. Hatta was born in Fort de Kock, Dutch East Indies (now Bukittinggi, Indonesia). After his early education, he studied in Dutch schools in the Dutch East Indies and studied in the Netherlands from 1921 until 1932. Hatta is often remembered as Bung Hatta (according to author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, "bung" is an affectionate title meaning "friend", used to be a way of addressing a person in a familiar way, as an alternative to the old-form "tuan", "mas" or "bang").