Muhammad Kaharuddin III was an Indonesian politician and royal who was the 16th Sultan of Sumbawa, a senator of the United States of Indonesia, and the regent of Sumbawa Regency between 1959 and 1960. He was also active in the politics of the State of East Indonesia, where he chaired its legislature between 1947 and its dissolution in 1950.
Muhammad Kaharuddin III in 1947
Kaharuddin (center) as Speaker of the East Indonesia parliament.
The State of East Indonesia was a post–World War II state formed in the eastern half of Dutch East Indies. Established in December 1946, it became part of the United States of Indonesia (USI) in 1949 at the end of the Indonesian National Revolution, and was dissolved in 1950 with the end of the USI. It comprised all the islands to the east of Borneo and of Java.
President Tjokorda Gde Raka Soekawati of the State of East Indonesia and his wife, Gilberte Vincent, during a visit to North Celebes in 1948
The First Nadjamoedin Daeng Malewa cabinet of East Indonesia, which was installed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of 13 January 1947 in the former building of the Council of Indies in Batavia.
The regions of the State of East Indonesia
Image: Tjokorda Gde Rake Sukawati (1947)
