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Reform Era Political Activist Pak Tjip Dies at 66 After a Stroke
November 25, 2011

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Sutjipto, a reformasi era political activist and former secretary general of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, passed away on Thursday afternoon in a Surabaya hospital. He was 66.

The death was announced by Eko Suwanto, deputy chief of Yogyakarta branch of the party known as PDI-P.

“He died earlier at around 5:30 p.m.,” Eko said, adding that Sutjipto had been treated at Darmo Hospital for a stroke.

Sutjipto, or Pak Tjip as he was fondly known, was the party’s national secretary general from 2000 to 2005.

His political career began when he became a student activist in 1964.

“Let us pray that the deceased, Pak Tjip, goes to heaven, and that his family and our party is steadfast in maintaining the values, beliefs and ideals that he fought for,” Eko said. 

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