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Ilyas Yakoub (14 June 1903 – 2 August 1958) sometimes spelled Ilyas Ya'kub, was an Indonesian Islamic scholar, journalist and politician. He was declared a National Hero of Indonesia in 1999.
Biography
Ilyas Yakoub was born in Asam Kumbang, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 14 June 1903. His father Haji Yakoub was a cloth merchant. Ilyas was sent to in a Hollandsch-Inlandsche School, a Dutch-language school for native children, and he also studied Islam with his grandfather. After graduating during the First World War, he worked as a clerk for a mining company in Sawahlunto until 1919. In 1923, he went to Egypt to study further; he became active in student and Islamic politics and began to write for Egyptian newspapers. He returned to the Indies in 1929.
In 1930 he cofounded the Persatuan Muslim Indonesia, a nationalist party with an Islamist orientation. Because of this he was exiled by the Dutch to the Boven-Digoel concentration camp.
He died on 2 August 1958. In 1958 he was declared a Pioneering Hero of Indonesian Independence and was declared a National Hero in 1999.
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- Ilyas Ya'kub
- Tan Malaka
- Monumen Tamansari
- 1903
- Sultan Hasanuddin
- Pahlawan nasional Indonesia
- Agus Salim
- Dewi Sartika
- Yusuf Al-Makassari
- Sutomo
- Ilyas Yakoub
- Yakub
- Sukarno
- Abdul Haris Nasution
- Diponegoro
- Wage Rudolf Supratman
- Pakubuwono X
- Sudirman
- Mohammad Hatta
- Hamengkubuwono IX
