Gustaaf Adolf Maengkom
Gustaaf Adolf Maengkom was a former Indonesian Minister of Justice in the Djuanda Cabinet and Indonesian ambassador to Poland.Life
Maengkom was born on the 11th March 1907 at Tondano, Minahasa, then part of the Dutch East Indies.
Maengkom studied at the College of Law or Rechtshoogeschool te Batavia in Batavia, but did not finish. After the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, he became a member of the Tamtomo Battalion in the Siliwangi Division from 1947 to 1949. He subsequently served as a District Court judge in the cities of Denpasar in Bali, Sukabumi and Cianjur in West Java, and Jakarta.
From 1957 to 1959 Maengkom served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Djuanda. Subsequently from 1962 to 1966, Maengkom served as Indonesian ambassador to Poland.
Aged 77, Maengkom died on the 25th March 1984 at Jakarta.
