Savior of the Sarekat Islam
Tjokroaminoto wrote the bylaws of the Sarekat Islam and worked tirelessly to transform it into a national organization. Not surprisingly, it is Tjokro’s name that is often associated with the organization, not the founder.
August 17, 2011
IT is close to a century since Haji Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto drafted the bylaws for the Sarekat Islam or Islamic Association. At his home in Jalan Peneleh VII in Surabaya, Tjokroaminoto completed the articles of the Sarekat Islam association on September 10, 1912. It contained 15 articles and its contents regulated the form of the organization, its objectives, the requirements for its establishment, its membership and its protocol for holding me
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