Raden Agustinus Suhardi (1899–1988) was a professor at Gadjah Mada University and fifth Agrarian Minister of Indonesia.
Suhardi was born in Klaten, Central Java in 1899. [1] He first studied at a school for native Indonesians, before moving to nearby Yogyakarta to study at a Meer uitgebreid lager onderwijs (middle school) there. [1] For high school, he moved to Batavia (modern day Jakarta) and attended Canisius College. [1] He then attended legal school, the Recht Hooge School, there. [1]
Suhardi first found employment as a judge at a Dutch court in Tangerang, West Java. [1] In 1946, he was transferred to Boyolali, Central Java, to head the court there. [1] The following year he was transferred to Ngawi, East Java, to head the military court there. [1] He later became the first Agrarian Minister of Indonesia. [1] At the time he was also a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University (UGM). [1]
Suhardi was a member of the UGM team that framed the Fundamental Agrarian Law in 1959. [1] He was also a participant in the Asian–African Conference and part of the Catholic Faction in the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia. [2]
Suhardi died in 1988. [2]
Suhardi was married to Agustina Siti Ruwiyah. [1] Together they had five children. [1]