Second Sjahrir Cabinet Kabinet Sjahrir II
3rdCabinet of Indonesia
1946
Date formed	12 March 1946 (1946-03-12)
Date dissolved	2 October 1946 (1946-10-02)
People and organisations
Head of state	Sukarno
Head of government	Sutan Sjahrir
No. of ministers	24 ministers
Member party	PSI  Parkindo  Masyumi  PNI  PKI  Independent
History
Predecessor	Sjahrir I Cabinet
Successor	Sjahrir III Cabinet

TheSecond Sjahrir Cabinet (Indonesian:Kabinet Sjahrir II) was the thirdIndonesian cabinet and the second formed bySutan Sjahrir. It served from March to October 1946.

The firstSjahrir cabinet had been forced to resign byTan Malaka and his opposition Struggle Front. PresidentSukarno then offered this group the chance to form a new government, but it was unable to do so principally because of fears from other members of the group that Tan Malaka would try to replace Sukarno. Sukarno, with the support of theCentral Indonesian National Committee (KNIP), then asked Sjahrir to form a new cabinet. The KNIP asked Sjahrir to form a cabinet including a wider range of opinion. Sjahrir agreed on the condition he would have the greater say in the choice of members.^[1]

Ten of the members of the previous cabinet served in the new cabinet. It contained members from a range of political parties, but Sjahrir's group was still dominant.^[2]

Minister of Justice Soewandi resigned on 22 June 1946 and four days later Minister of Agriculture and Supplies Rasad lost his job when the ministry he headed was merged into the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which later became the Ministry of Welfare. Darmawan Mangoenkoesoemo was appointed Minister of Welfare and Saksono as Junior Minister of Welfare.^[3]

The second Sjahrir cabinet fell because of the kidnapping of Sjahrir and Darmawan Mangoenkoesoemo on 27 June 1946 by soldiers commanded by General Sudarsono. Like other opposition forces, they believed the government had betrayed the ideal of total independence by negotiating with the Dutch and concedingde facto Dutch control over parts of Indonesia. The rest of the cabinet held a meeting chaired by Amir Sjarifuddin and proposed transferring all powers to Sukarno. The president took control of the government by a decree issued on 28 June. This decree returned Indonesia to a presidential system and dissolved the cabinet.^[4][5][6]

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