Siauw Giok Tjhan

Preceded byOffice established

Succeeded byOffice abolished

Born(1914-03-23)23 March 1914

Surabaya, Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia)

Died20 November 1981(1981-11-20) (aged 67)

Leiden, Netherlands

Siauw Giok Tjhan
蕭玉燦
Official portrait, c. 1956
Chairman of Baperki
In office 13 March 1954 – 12 March 1966
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 17 February 1950 – 1 April 1966
Member of the Constitutional Assembly
In office 9 November 1956 – 5 July 1959
Personal details
Born	(1914-03-23)23 March 1914 Surabaya, Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia)
Died	20 November 1981(1981-11-20) (aged 67) Leiden, Netherlands
Chinese name
Chinese	蕭玉燦
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xiāo Yùcàn

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.^[1]