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Indonesian physician

Wahidin Soedirohoesodo (1852–1917) (in modern EYD spelling Wahidin Sudirohusodo) was a medical doctor and education reformer in the Dutch East Indies who co-founded the Javanese self-improvement society Budi Utomo.

Therefore, he is sometimes considered an early figure in the Indonesian National Awakening. In 1973 he was declared a National Hero of Indonesia.^[1]

Biography

Wahidin was born on 7 January 1852, in Sleman, Yogyakarta, in the Dutch East Indies.^[1] Although he was mainly of Javanese Priyayi (noble) descent, he was also descended from Daeng Kraeng Nobo, an aristocrat from Makassar who left for Java during the conquest of the Mataram Sultanate by the Dutch.^[2]

In his youth, he studied in the Tweede Europeesche Lagere School in Yogyakarta before studying at the STOVIA school in Batavia and becoming a medical doctor.^[2] After graduating from there, he was obliged to work for