Deliar Noer [SEP] date of death
Deliar Noer
Deliar Noer (9 February 1926 17 June 2008) was a Muslim scholar, politician, lecturer and former director of State University of Jakarta.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
Noer was born in Medan, North Sumatra on 9 February 1926. He was a Minang descent, from Bukittinggi, West Sumatra. After graduating from high school, he attended to Universitas Nasional and became a chairman of Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam. After he obtained a baccalaureate, he continued to Cornell University and became the first Indonesian that
Kahin helped develop Indonesian studies in the United States at a time when the majority of material on Indonesia was held at Leiden University in the Netherlands. At Cornell, he introduced a postgraduate education program for diplomats from around the world who were in the middle of their careers. He also helped many Indonesian intellectuals, including Deliar Noer and sociologist Selo Soemardjan, obtain education in the United States. Several of Kahin's students and associates, including Herbert Feith, went on to establish similar programs at the universities where they subsequently taught