Siauw Giok Tjhan

Siauw Giok Tjhan
蕭玉燦
Siauw, c. 1955
Personal details
Born	(1914-03-23)23 March 1914 Kapasan, Surabaya, East Java, Dutch East Indies
Died	20 November 1981(1981-11-20) (aged 67) Leiden, Netherlands

Siauw Giok Tjhan (Chinese: 蕭玉燦; pinyin: Xiāo Yùcàn; 23 March 1914 – 20 November 1981) was a Chinese Indonesian activist and politician. Born in Kapasan, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, he was an independent member of the Provisional House of Representatives in the early 1950s. He was briefly detained without charge during the August 1951 mass arrests. He became a cabinet minister under Indonesian president Sukarno and was imprisoned for 12 years by the subsequent president, Suharto for his left-wing beliefs. He was active in rights campaigning and was critical against the assimilation policies enacted towards Chinese Indonesians by Suharto. As a part of Baperki and the group's leader. He supported the Communist takeover of China, opposed to Taiwan, and was a Marxist, following his release he moved to the Netherlands where he remained till his death.