Dahlan dies of heart attack

JAKARTA (JP): Dahlan Mansur Sutalaksana, a Ministry of Finance official, died of a heart attack yesterday. He was buried at South Jakarta's Tanah Kusir public cemetery yesterday afternoon.

Dahlan, born in Bandung on March 15, 1939, is survived by a wife and three children.

He worked as an expert on capital market development and as secretary of the Monetary Council in 1994.

Dahlan held several important positions at Bank Indonesia. From 1978 to 1979 he was deputy head of the central bank's Bandung and Medan offices. From 1979 to 1984 he was head of the bank's small-business section. In 1985 he became deputy head of the cooperative and small-scale loan department. From 1988 to 1994, Dahlan headed the money market and deposit department at the central bank.

He was once the Ministry of Finance's spokesman.

Dahlan received a Shogaku Shi degree in business and commerce from the University of Keio, Tokyo, Japan in 1966. He received a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's JFK School of Government in 1975. In 1977 he got his master's degree in economics and in 1978 a master's in political economy, both from Boston Massachusetts University.

On Saturday, Zainuddin Harahap, who discovered 52 strains of high-quality rice, died after a long illness. He was given a military burial in Bogor on Saturday. (sur)