Boentaran Martoatmodjo

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Raden Boentaran Martoatmodjo (11 January 1896 – 4 October 1979) was an Indonesian physician and politician. He served as the first Minister of Health following the country's independence from September to November 1945, and was previously a member of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence. Educated at the STOVIA medical school and later Leiden University, Martoatmodjo spent much of his colonial-era medical career in Semarang and became head of the city's public hospital by the time of the Japanese invasion. He had a good relationship with the Japanese occupation forces, and was appointed to multiple Japanese-formed organizations during the war. Appointed health minister in the first cabinet, he founded the Indonesian Red Cross during his two-month tenure. Martoatmodjo would be arrested for taking part in a coup attempt in 1946, and was released in 1948.